Bette Davis Quotes
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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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.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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In Hollywood, women hate each other.
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If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
