Hedy Lamarr Quotes

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.

Hedy Lamarr

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Beautiful
  • Construction
  • Spy

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• You can't build a society without law.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Society
  • You
  • Law

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Failure

• Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Live
  • Soul

• Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Culture
  • Popular

• The beginning is always today.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Today
  • Beginning

• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Night

• I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Taken

• Don't trust anyone over thirty.

  

  Jerry Rubin
  • Trust

• The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Time

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

  

  John Webster
  • Help
  • Fall

• Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Order
  • Bold

• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Death
  • Order
  • Massage