They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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Grumbling is the death of love.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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I am not a myth.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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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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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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 dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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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 tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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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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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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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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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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