Bette Davis Quotes

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

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• Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Live
  • Today
  • Cloud

• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Science

• My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Job
  • Best
  • Focus

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • American
  • Care

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Best

• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Better
  • Door
  • Just Because

• I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Gold
  • Planned

• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Travel

• The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Out

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Me

• From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Media
  • Content
  • Website

• I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • Society
  • Hollywood

• In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

  

  Charlie Morton
  • Crisis
  • Prepared
  • Initiative

• I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

  

  Eva Green
  • Ambition
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Hollywood
  • Prepared
  • Secretary