Bette Davis Quotes

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Simple

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

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Better
  • Hunting
  • Racing

• I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Parents
  • Like
  • Poetry

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Important
  • Change
  • Walk

• Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Spiritual
  • Brothers

• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
  • Behavior
  • Frontier

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Character
  • Funny

• Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

  

  David Cohen
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Children
  • Body

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Inspiration
  • Consciousness
  • Self-Consciousness

• Grim death.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Death

• Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Truth
  • Workout
  • Affair