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.
HEDY LAMARRExperts 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.
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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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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.
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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 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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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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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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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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Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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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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