"It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible."

-- Randy Pausch

#Important Quotes

“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived”
“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
“I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.”
“Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.”
“The learning process continues until the day you die.”

Source : "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 2001.
“I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.”
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

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