Bea Arthur Quotes

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

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• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

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• The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

  

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• My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

  

  Bea Arthur
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  • Women
  • Movie