Bette Davis Quotes
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
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I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'
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Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
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We read the Bible, I guess not as much as we should. All of us in the group are Christians. I think a lot of that comes out in the music.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
