Bette Midler Quotes
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
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I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
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Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
