When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLERWriting 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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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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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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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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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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