Bette Midler Quotes
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.Bette Midler
Quotes to Explore
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine -
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader -
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland -
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Rafe Spall -
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris -
Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
Kate Williams
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
Ian Hacking -
I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
Kat Graham -
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
Jack Horner -
The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
Daniel Baldwin -
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner -
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Iris Apfel
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
Imre Lakatos -
We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.
Daniel Cormier -
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
Karen Finerman -
Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.
Jason Wu -
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
Bette Midler