Hedy Lamarr Quotes

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hedy Lamarr

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Great
  • English

• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
  • Never
  • Cutting

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • New
  • Going
  • Bring

• It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Overcome
  • Mental Illness

• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • You
  • Way
  • Repetition

• They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Warrior

• The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Political
  • Peace

• The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Experience

• I try to go to the gym. I either go on the rower or watch a TV show on the treadmill, and then I do some weight lifting.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Gym
  • Lifting

• My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Blow

• The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

  

  William Booth
  • Men
  • Children
  • Fighting

• You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Literature

• I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Children
  • Father
  • Born