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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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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In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.
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Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands.
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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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.
