Bette Midler Quotes

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

Bette Midler

• Feelings
• Inferiority
• Overconfident

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Celebration

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• I was always the weirdo at school.

  

  Karen Elson
  • School
  • Always
  • Weirdo

• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Effort

• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Picture

• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Feelings
  • River
  • Illness

• Grief makes one hour ten.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Hours
  • Grieving

• And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • United States
  • Not Believe
  • Bores

• Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

  

  George W. Crane
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Motions

• I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Feelings
  • Inferiority
  • Overconfident