Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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To me, my business is my life.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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There are times I try to look older. And then there are times I look too young.
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I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
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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.
