Bette Davis Quotes

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

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• I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

  

  Larry David
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Take

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Night

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Best

• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Best

• I'm pretty much an open book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Open

• Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

  

  Dan Butler
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Pretty
  • Challenge
  • Scary

• The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Remember
  • America

• The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poems were practically the only recourse I had to alleviate that energy and that anxiety. I take no credit for all the poems I’ve written. They were a way of releasing anxiety.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Energy

• We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Pretty
  • Science
  • Catholic

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• Efforts to repeal Obamacare are misguided, dangerous, and just another instance of Republicans fighting the political wars of years past. But, health care shouldn't be about politics; it must be about helping people lead healthier lives.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Political
  • Past

• You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Style

• I think it was at 16 when I forced myself because my dad had nagged me for an entire year. Like, 'Come on, sing for people. You have a nice voice,' and I just wouldn't do it. One evening, I just decided, 'Screw it, I'll do it.' I remember it was really bad. But I did it. So that was good.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Pretty
  • Dull