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

— 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)

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

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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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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