Bette Davis Quotes
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette Davis
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
Nancy Gibbs
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
Dana Perino
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
Taslima Nasrin
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
Kate Winslet
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer
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Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
Florence Henderson
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette Davis
