Bette Midler Quotes

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Bette Midler

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• A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Find
  • Lot

• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• Good argument is intended to persuade another.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Argument
  • Another

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Disney
  • Favorite

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Attention
  • Day
  • End

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

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Singing

• In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

  

  Petula Clark
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Acting

• If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.

  

  Lilith Saintcrow
  • Job
  • Dark

• On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • People
  • Holiday
  • March

• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  

  Charley Pride
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Dreamer

• [On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Singing
  • Orchestra
  • Arrested