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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
Explore more quotes by Hedy Lamarr
"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."
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
"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."
"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."
"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office."
"I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect."
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