There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
BETTE DAVISYou should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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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.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
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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.
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I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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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.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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