MDMarlene Dietrich

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Marlene Dietrich

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

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04Undated

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

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

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

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09Undated

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

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 - it's gone.

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12Undated

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

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13Undated

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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14Undated

"Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.

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15Undated

Grumbling is the death of love.

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16Undated

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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17Undated

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

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18Undated

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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19Undated

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

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20Undated

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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21Undated

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

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22Undated

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

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