Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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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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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I am at heart a gentleman.
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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I am not a myth.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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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 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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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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