Bette Davis Quotes
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
