A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
MARLENE DIETRICHMost women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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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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A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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