Surprisingly, my father gave me almost complete freedom in the management of Koch Engineering. He told me I could do anything I wanted with it, short of selling it. - Charles G. Koch
After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots. - Goldie Hawn
Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it. - Goldie Hawn
Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance. - Goldie Hawn
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. - Goldie Hawn
Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing. - Goldie Hawn
During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.' - Goldie Hawn
I don't like facial hair, and I don't like kissing facial hair, as you cant find the lips. - Goldie Hawn
I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh. - Goldie Hawn
I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it. - Goldie Hawn
I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life. - Goldie Hawn
I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God. - Goldie Hawn
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? - Goldie Hawn
I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men. - Goldie Hawn
I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain. - Goldie Hawn
I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person. - Goldie Hawn
I've been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy and my practice is really Buddhist. - Goldie Hawn
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. - Goldie Hawn
My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn't. - Goldie Hawn
My parents always supported me, but I was put to task. My father thought when I sang, I was sharp; my mother was upset when I wasn't in the first line at recitals. - Goldie Hawn
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it. - Goldie Hawn
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