Bette Midler Quotes
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
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Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
