Bette Midler Quotes
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.