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.
HEDY LAMARRIt is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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 know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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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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Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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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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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
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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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I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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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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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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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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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 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 advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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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 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 must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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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’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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