Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
MARLENE DIETRICHIn America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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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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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with 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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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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 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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