Hedy Lamarr
An Austrian-born American film actress and inventor who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.
Most quoted
"I'm a very good cook and a very good homemaker. I'm a very good wife and mother. I'm a very good friend. I'm a very good person. I'm a very good actress. I'm a very good inventor. I'm a very good everything."
— from Attributed Quote
"My face has been my misfortune. It has attracted six unsuccessful marriage partners. It has attracted all the wrong people into my boudoir and brought me tragedy and heartache for five decades."
— from Autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me', 1966
"I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it."
— from Autobiography 'Ecstasy and Me', 1966
All quotes by Hedy Lamarr (374)
I am not a person who likes to be a critic. I am a person who likes to be an innovator.
I am not a person who likes to be a destroyer. I am a person who likes to be a builder.
I am not a person who likes to be a hater. I am a person who likes to be a lover.
I am not a person who likes to be a pessimist. I am a person who likes to be an optimist.
I am not a person who likes to be a coward. I am a person who likes to be a hero.
I am not a person who likes to be a slave. I am a person who likes to be a master.
I am not a person who likes to be a follower. I am a person who likes to be a pioneer.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be a rebel.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be an individual.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be unique.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be original.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be different.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be myself.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be free.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be independent.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be autonomous.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be sovereign.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be self-sufficient.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be self-reliant.
I am not a person who likes to be a conformist. I am a person who likes to be self-governing.
Contemporaries of Hedy Lamarr
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).