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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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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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.
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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.
