Bette Davis Quotes

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Mistake

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Slavery

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Basketball
  • Down
  • Gets

• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Television
  • Invention

• There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Nature
  • Environmental

• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Way
  • Crime

• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Bond

• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Way
  • Interesting

• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Lose