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I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis. -- Julie Andrews
Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. -- Larry Flynt
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. -- Herb Alpert
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. -- Charlie Trotter
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control. -- Ronnie Musgrove
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
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius. -- John Madden
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. -- Henry Rollins
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. -- Ziggy Marley
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. -- Ziggy Marley
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket. -- Lauren Bacall
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. -- Jim Jarmusch
I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time. -- Dionne Warwick
I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. -- Grace Jones
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. -- Miles Davis
I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis. -- Eric Davis
Anthony Davis is cool. -- Deron Williams
Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination. -- Brady Udall
Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints? -- George Carlin
Davis fouls out to third in fair territory. -- Jerry Coleman
Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. -- Chino XL
[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. -- Gerry Mulligan
I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap -- Ronda Rousey
She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes. -- Kim Carnes
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films. -- Rebecca Hall
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" . -- Joe Eszterhas
Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett. -- Rutina Wesley
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. -- Charlize Theron
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. -- Alexander H. Stephens
When I see Steve Davis I see two letters... C S... Cue Sorceror. -- Sid Waddell
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. -- Jacques Audiard
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. -- Ice T
Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering. -- Winona Ryder
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn. -- Richard LaGravenese
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. -- Richard Griffiths
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. -- Robert Quine
I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable. -- Diane Warren
I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be. -- Jerry Coleman
Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper. -- Donald Judd
Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis. -- Adam McKay
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice. -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. -- Steve Lukather
And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative. -- Mike Curb
It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure. -- Steven R. McQueen
Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today. -- Sebastian Janikowski
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis. -- Val Guest
It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess. -- Charles Busch
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right. -- Sheila Kitzinger
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. -- Sally Kirkland
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say. -- Mario Cantone
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms. -- Pete Rose
You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul. -- Ronald Reagan
(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me. -- Humphrey Bogart
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. -- Ted King
I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old. -- Gena Rowlands
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. -- Jan Garbarek
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis. -- Danny Glover
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. -- Miroslav Vitous
Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious. -- Billy Crystal
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. -- Henry Fonda
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader. -- Stefon Harris
I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there! -- Leona Lewis
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment. -- Dionne Warwick
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him. -- Rip Torn
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated." -- Frank Langella
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities. -- Edward A. Pollard
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. -- Cassandra Wilson
There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!" -- Winona Ryder
I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner. -- Imelda May
Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis. -- Claudette Colbert
Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee. -- Jerry Coleman
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species. -- Jay Leno
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages. -- Kieran Hebden
If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice. -- Emma Watson
For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days. -- Andy Murray
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there. -- Anne Lamott
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic. -- Loni Anderson
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. -- Cassandra Wilson
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. -- Christopher Moore
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road. -- Barry Hannah
Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. -- Ted Lowe
Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them -- Sam Rutigliano
I ran a few miles, Davis, and they were musical. Then I made love like the sound of a trumpet, as heard by Helen Keller. -- Jarod Kintz
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo. -- Margaret Cho
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. -- Don Cheadle
Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top. -- Jay Leno
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia. -- Lleyton Hewitt
The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. -- Donald Trump
Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been. -- Elaine Stritch
I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me. -- Elisabeth Moss
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends. -- Debbie Reynolds
In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista. -- Q-Tip
No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open? -- John McEnroe
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes. -- Jim Courier
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles -- Dennis Banks
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. -- Dennis Banks
I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear. -- George Duke
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn. -- Michael Connelly
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years. -- Denis Leary
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song. -- Mitch Lucker
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe. -- Denzel Washington
Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth. -- Bill Cobbs
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like. -- Oprah Winfrey
I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also. -- Kanye West

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