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
  • Focus
  • Best

• 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

• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Road

• We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Dream
  • Difficult
  • Ahead

• I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Speak

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

  

  Bette Davis
  • Hollywood
  • Prepared
  • Secretary