Bette Midler Quotes
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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I've been pretty fortunate.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.