Quotes with davis

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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Angela Davis In this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Angela Davis Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
    Women, Race, & Class (2011) 222
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bette Davis It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Angela Davis It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bette Davis It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Angela Davis It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Angela Davis Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bette Davis Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bill Laswell Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bettie Page My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Bette Davis My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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