Bette Davis Quotes
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave.
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Friends accept you the way you are.
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I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
