Bette Midler Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular - I admit that much - and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power.
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Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
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The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
