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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I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
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First then, we find that when we regard ideas from a nominalistic, individualistic, sensualistic way, the simplest facts of mind become utterly meaningless. That one idea should resemble another or influence another, or that one state of mind should so much as be thought of in another is, from that standpoint, sheer nonsense.
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
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I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
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When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
