Bette Davis
Actress
"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"If your mind dislike anything obey it"
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like."
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"It is a great bond to dislike the same things."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours."
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"Men dislike being awakened from their death in life."
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"The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident."
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"I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them."
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"It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people."
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"I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful."
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"Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)"
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"If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?"
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"The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me."
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"I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?"
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"I dislike allegory wherever I smell it."
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"It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do."
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