Bette Midler Quotes

You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

Bette Midler

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• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

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• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

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• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

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• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

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• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

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• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

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• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

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• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

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• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

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• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

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• I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.

  

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• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

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• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

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• Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

  

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• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

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• I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

  

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• Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

  

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• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  

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• The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

  

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• You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

  

  Bette Midler
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  • Daughter
  • Littles