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" I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. "
Michael Douglas
Fact
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" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "
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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
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" My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. "
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" I've always liked Tina Turner. "
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" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "
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" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "
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" My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? "
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" The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. "
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" My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not. "
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" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "
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" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "
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" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "
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