Quote by Hedy Lamarr
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of a

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. – Hedy Lamarr

Other quotes by Hedy Lamarr

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. – Hedy Lamarr

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Marriage
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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. – Hedy Lamarr

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Hope
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. – Hedy Lamarr

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Business
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

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Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. – Camille Paglia

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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. – English Proverb

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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. – Michael Pollan

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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our childrens right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. – Michael Morpurgo

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