Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
HEDY LAMARRIf I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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