Marlene Dietrich Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Funny, Change, Hilarious

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Responsibility, Duty, Lacking

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• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex, Women, Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Mother, Food, Mind

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Style, Glamour, Trade

  "Paltrow takes lead role in film of Dietrich's life" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2004.

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• Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Men, Tenderness

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Differences, Earning, Wealth

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Strong, Weakness, Weak

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Paid

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• Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Women, Home, Unmade Beds

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fashion, Dark, Remember

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• one should be afraid of life, not of death.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Life And Death, Life Death, Should

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Laughter, Laughing, Remember

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.70, Open Road Media

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Disappointment, Real, Hands

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Country, Talking, Style

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• Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Work, Workaholic, Forget

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  I Love You, Broken Heart, Love Is

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Real, Men, Gentle

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• For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Opera, Stores, Hardware

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• Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fall, Kids, Artist

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Spiritual, Keys, Enlightenment

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene”, p.35, Open Road Media

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