There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. They’re so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
MARLENE DIETRICHTo be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet – it’s gone.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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