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
  • Cool
  • Like

• 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

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Men
  • Moral

• I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Together

• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

  

  Marcus Allen
  • Running
  • Single

• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  

  Joseph Williams
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Passion

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

  

  Bette Midler
  • Running
  • Passion
  • Over You