Bette Midler Quotes

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

Bette Midler

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Like
  • Cool

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Stone
  • First Time

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Choose
  • Now
  • Classical

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Support
  • Moving
  • Process

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Society
  • Genius
  • Dress

• If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Up
  • Years

• Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Murder

• In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Energy
  • Economic

• I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

  

  William Hurt
  • Long
  • Running
  • Film

• Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Running
  • Passion
  • Over You