Bette Midler Quotes
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I've always watched the political shows.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
