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 love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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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 am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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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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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
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I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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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.
