When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
MARLENE DIETRICHDarling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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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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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 father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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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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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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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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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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