Bette Midler Quotes

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

Bette Midler

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• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
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• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
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• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
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• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
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• I am mentally strong.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.

  

  Ara Parseghian
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• One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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• It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

  

  Douglas Hurd
  • War

• From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Age
  • Ran
  • Treadmills