The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
MARLENE DIETRICHI’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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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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’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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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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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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.
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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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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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