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 MIDLERMe, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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My 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.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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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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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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