Bette Davis on hate
Bette Davis119 quotes“You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.”
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
Bette DavisBette Davis It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
Bette DavisBette Davis Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
Bette DavisBette Davis People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette DavisBette Davis There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
Bette DavisBette Davis Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
Bette DavisBette Davis It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
Bette DavisBette Davis I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
Bette DavisBette Davis The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
Bette DavisBette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette DavisBette Davis I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
Bette DavisBette Davis With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
Bette DavisBette Davis If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette DavisBette Davis 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.
Bette DavisBette Davis The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
Bette DavisBette Davis I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Kristen StewartKristen Stewart There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Cesar ChavezCesar Chavez Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William BlakeWilliam Blake If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
MaimonidesMaimonides Keep on loving in the face of hate.
Travis ScottTravis Scott Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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