Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLER
BETTE MIDLER
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
Bette MidlerBette Midler I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
Bette MidlerBette Midler Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
Bette MidlerBette Midler When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
Bette MidlerBette Midler hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
Bette MidlerBette Midler 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.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette MidlerBette Midler We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
Bette MidlerBette Midler Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
Bette MidlerBette Midler I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Bill ShanklyBill Shankly As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
Bobby JonesBobby Jones Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
Bobby JonesBobby Jones He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
Bob HopeBob Hope By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.
Bo JacksonBo Jackson It’s just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.
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