When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
MARLENE DIETRICHMost women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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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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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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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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