Bette Davis Quotes

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Experience
  • Presidential
  • Democrat

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• 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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Childhood

• In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • Hero
  • Television

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • Man
  • Law

• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Sincerity

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Technology
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Kids
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Down

• There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• I watched him at Seattle

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Seattle
  • I Watched

• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Time
  • Death
  • Eyes

• The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Alone
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Star
  • Recognition
  • Starring