Bette Midler Quotes

It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

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• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Fruit
  • Chicken

• I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Done
  • Thought

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Theater

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Truth

• For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Learning

• I don't have a lot of instinctive fashion style myself.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Fashion
  • Style

• When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

  

  Bette Midler
  • World
  • Different
  • Albums