Bette Davis Quotes
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Quotes to Explore
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
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Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.
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This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'
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I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
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God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
