Bette Davis Quotes
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I want to love life.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
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The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
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I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
