I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
BETTE DAVISThere’s only one way to work — like hell.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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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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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Strong women only marry weak men.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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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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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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