Bette Midler Quotes
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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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.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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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.
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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.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.
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I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go to a Barnes & Noble cafe or to the library on 5th and 42nd. In the afternoons, I do research, reading, editing, and play with the kids.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
