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.
MARLENE DIETRICHHow 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.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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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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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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 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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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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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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I am not a myth.
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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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