Bette Midler Quotes
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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If you have injuries, it's tough.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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To be human is to err, isn't it?
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I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.
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A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.
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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
