The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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 am not a myth.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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I am at heart a gentleman.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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