Bette Midler Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.
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The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!
