Bette Midler Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Women are sacred.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.
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Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.
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I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It's just fashion, people. It's just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You're not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse.
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I didn't say Steve Scalise was fanatically pro-Israel. I said I wouldn't vote for because he supports state of Israel which has committed terrorism against American in the Lavon Affair.
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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
