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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

— Hedy Lamarr Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

The Stars (1962)

I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

Her Highness and the Bellboy. There I am, eight months pregnant, being photographed behind potted palms and in full ball gowns, which fortunately fit the story.

Hubba, Hubba Hubba—It's Hedy! (1971)

Clark Gable and I, in Comrade X. Although I never quite understood his sex appeal, I thought he was one of the nicest people I'd met, and a great practical joker.

Hubba, Hubba Hubba—It's Hedy! (1971)

Ziegfeld Girl. When I see those infinite stairs in that lavish production number that out‐Metro's even Metro, I break up.

Hubba, Hubba Hubba—It's Hedy! (1971)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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