Bette Midler Quotes
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.
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Now God killed John Lennon and he let Barry Manilow survive,But the good Lord blessed little Adrian Mitchell with the fastest cock alive.
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
