Bette Midler Quotes

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Bette Midler

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • War
  • Day

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale:'Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others,Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Religious

• I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

  

  James Turrell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Technology

• There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Country
  • Death
  • Health

• I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Light
  • Balance
  • Tears