Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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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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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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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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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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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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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 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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I am not a myth.
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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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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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