Hedy Lamarr Quotes
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
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Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
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One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
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I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take that to America, however, and I have another set of conversations.
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I have hope. I have no expectations.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
