Bette Davis Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
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Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
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Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.
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If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
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My passion for books has changed my life.
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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
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I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
