I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLER[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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