Bette Midler Quotes

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Bette Midler

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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Jim Mattis

LeadershipHomeAgeServiceTrust

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Michael Hastings

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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

Tracy Chapman

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We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

Trevor Rabin

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What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

Roy Conli

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The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

Mike Weir

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I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.

Michael Keaton

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I believe I am an honorable man.

Joseph J. Ellis

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I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that's when my career took off.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Chord Overstreet

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You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

Bob Nelson

BestPeopleYouCommandOnly

When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.

Ava DuVernay

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