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Bette Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Expectations Happiness
I will never be below the title.
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Confidence Myself Title Worth
I’ve always liked men better than women.
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Man Woman
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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Appearance Relax
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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Man Reality Woman
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Commitment Humanity Love Religion
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Right Yourself
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Forgiveness Heartless Quality Stuck Up
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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Big Life Myself Problem
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
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Empowerment Inspirational Women
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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Children Hate Parents Yourself
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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Dog Thinking Travel Yourself
I’ve lost my faith in science.
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Faith Lost Science
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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Age Couple
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
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Heart People
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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Breakup I Miss You Love
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
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Bed Body Naked Sex Thinking
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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Born Children Men Sex
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Believe Children Myself Parents
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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Fame Myself Talk
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Black Myself Proud Thinking
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
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Person Yourself
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Night Yourself
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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Enough Myself Thinking
Strong women only marry weak men.
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Man Strong Weakness Women

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