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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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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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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I like spending time with my husband.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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Make believin in foreverIs just a lie.And it seems a little sadderEach time we try.'Cause it's a shame to makeThe same mistakes again,And again.It's over.Nobody wins.
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'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.
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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.
