Bette Midler Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
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When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
