You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
BETTE MIDLERUnfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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 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!
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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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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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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