Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
Judy GarlandRead
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Interpretation
True wealth is not material but rather the love and connections we hold in our hearts.
This quote emphasizes that the most valuable aspects of life, such as love, empathy, and genuine relationships, cannot be seen or measured in physical terms. Instead, they are felt deeply and are essential for a fulfilling life, suggesting that emotional and spiritual treasures far surpass material possessions.
In practice
During a wedding speech, one could reflect on the invisible treasures of love shared between partners.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Well done is better than well said.
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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