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" Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. "

Michael Douglas

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" The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons. "

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" When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. "

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" 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. "

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" You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be. "

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" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "

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" My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. "

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" I never really look at my movies. "

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" I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go. "

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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "

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" Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed. "

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" Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. "

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" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "

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" It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going. "

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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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" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "

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