hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes 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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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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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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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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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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