The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERCherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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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.
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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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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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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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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