Bette Midler Quotes
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
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That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
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I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
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If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.