Bette Midler Quotes
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I have worked with some great directors.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
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[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
