Bette Davis Quotes

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

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• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Divorce

• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Parents
  • June
  • Navy

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Best

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Force
  • Defense
  • Go

• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Good
  • Home
  • Help

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Change
  • Same

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • Sophisticated

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Habit
  • Start

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Think

• Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Generation
  • Writers
  • Readers

• I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Generation
  • Female
  • Marlon Brando