Bess Myerson Quotes

• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

  Moral Corruption, Indifference, Crime

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• You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

  Bess Myerson

  Ideas, People, Soul

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• You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

  Bess Myerson

  Beautiful, Hate, Character

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• I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

  Bess Myerson

  People, Want, Privacy

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• To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

  Bess Myerson

  Love, Broken Heart, Breakup

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• I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

  Bess Myerson

  Style, Sitting, Rooms

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• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  Bess Myerson

  Phoenix, Ashes

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• Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

  Bess Myerson

  Grateful, Quiet, Ask Me

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• Men go after me, and I choose among them.

  Bess Myerson

  Men

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• Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

  Bess Myerson

  Needs

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• I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

  Bess Myerson

  Lifetime, Crisis, Survived

  "Chronicle" by Nadine Brozan, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 1994.

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• I really don't like talking about diets.

  Bess Myerson

  Talking, Nba, Boston Celtics

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• I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

  Bess Myerson

  Mistake, Divorce, Decision

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• You cannot be beautiful and hate.

  Bess Myerson

  Beautiful, Hate

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