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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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 am totally unattached to material items.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
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I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.
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Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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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.
