Bette Midler Quotes

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Bette Midler

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ChildhoodParentsMeDownAffection

The company was ready to close its doors; there was real financial distress. But on the other side, there was high brand awareness, but that was negative because Puma was perceived as low-priced. It had lost its cachet. It was a well-known brand without a presence.

Jochen Zeitz

NegativeBrandFinancialDoorsReady

I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.

Jeremy Scott

HopeConnectionsFarmDreamI Can

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

John McAfee

Public DomainYouNeverLimitRoot

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

Robert Crais

EffortPeopleRoadProcessLong

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Rob Sheffield

DeathFlowersBlackAmericanKind

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Rush Limbaugh

PeopleAmericanElectionVoteMore

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

Mitt Romney

PeoplePresidentUnitedServeCommon

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Looking BackLookingForwardBackGo

By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires.

Jay Samit

KeyFeedbackBurnActiveStage

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

Jason Behr

FunBasketballBetterSomeoneYou

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

Diane Warren

ParentsMeSmallGuitarLovedBack

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Chrysippus

FateSayOthersMeanThroughThings

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