Bette Davis Quotes
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
