From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
BETTE MIDLERI read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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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 read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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