Bette Davis Quotes
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

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I always do my interviews face to face.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.