Bette Midler Quotes
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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Yoga in America is a joke.
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I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.
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Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love.
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I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.
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For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.
