In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICHI never enjoyed working in a film.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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I am not a myth.
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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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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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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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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.
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America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.
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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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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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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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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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