Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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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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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

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Duties are what make life most worth the living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

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Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

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Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

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Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

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H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.

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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. 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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Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

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Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

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Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.

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Glamour is what I sell in my act and it costs plenty. It's my stock-in-trade.

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I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all.

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Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

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Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

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In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

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Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

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Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

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Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

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The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

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You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

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Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

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Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

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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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