Bette Davis Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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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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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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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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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.
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I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
