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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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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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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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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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.
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I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
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You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.
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If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.
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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.
