Bette Midler Quotes
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.
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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
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I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
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Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
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15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.
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You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
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Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.
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Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
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When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
