Bette Midler Quotes
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
