Bette Davis Quotes

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bette Davis

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• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

  

  Larry King
  • Famous
  • Being
  • Being Famous

• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Talk
  • General
  • Offensive

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Door

• You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Chance

• Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Think
  • My Life

• My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Saying

• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Age
  • Security

• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  

  Alex Nunns
  • Party
  • Victory
  • Rules

• I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Girl

• I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Career

• You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

  

  James Redfield
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • People
  • Patriotic

• One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Truth
  • Career
  • Respected