Bette Midler Quotes
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
-
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
-
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
-
Tone can be as important as text.
-
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
-
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
-
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
-
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
-
If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
-
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
-
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
-
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
-
I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
-
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
-
I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
-
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
-
I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.
-
I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.
-
A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
-
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
-
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.
-
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
