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.
HEDY LAMARRWhen I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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Mr. 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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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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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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My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
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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.
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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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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 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 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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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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