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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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 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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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
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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.
