I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
MARLENE DIETRICHYou 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.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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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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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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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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