Bette Davis Quotes
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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Time flies when you are anxious!
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.
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I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.
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If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.
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I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
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I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
