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.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
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