Bette Davis
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
I've always liked men better than women.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
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