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.
MARLENE DIETRICHThe weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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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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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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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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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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 am not a myth.
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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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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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