I never enjoyed working in a film.
MARLENE DIETRICHA father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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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 love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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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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