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“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)”
― The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)”
― The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
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“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
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“I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.”
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“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.”
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“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
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“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”
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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
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“I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that. So I’m not the most adored person on the face of the earth. You have to know this. There are a lot of people who don’t like me at all, I’m very sure of that. But I wasn’t put on earth to be liked. I have my own reasons for being and my own sense of what is important and what isn’t, and I’m not going to change that.”
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“Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
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“If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.”
― By Myself
― By Myself
“His attention span was not long, shall we say?”
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“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.”
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“Let's face it: I want it all--just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.”
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“I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible – the chestnut trees – how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn’t have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn’t realize every quality of Bogie’s on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years”
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“Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can’t live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful – if anything, better even than I’d been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman – trust me!”
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“But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.”
― By Myself
― By Myself
“The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.”
― By Myself and Then Some
― By Myself and Then Some
“Imagination is the highest kite you can fly."
— Lauren Bacall”
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— Lauren Bacall”
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“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
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“Stop for a moment and ponder on the silliness of it. You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things, building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”
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“I believe in the truth, and I belive in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth... There are a lot of people who don't like me at all, I'm very sure of that. But I wasn't put on earth to be liked. I have my own reasons for being and my own sense of what is important and what isn't, and I'm not going to change that.”
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