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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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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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.
