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 LAMARRMr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
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I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite 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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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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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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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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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