I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLERMy parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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.
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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