When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLERI love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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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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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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