Bette Midler Quotes
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.
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Be the catalyst for change. Empowering women, empowering humanity
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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
