Bette Davis Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill-to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.
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I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
