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"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."
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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
People

"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
Life

"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."
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"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."
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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
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