it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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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
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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.
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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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