I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
HEDY LAMARRMost children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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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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The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
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Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
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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 never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
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