Bette Midler Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
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When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
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Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.
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I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
