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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.

Bette Midler

A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLER

Cigarettes Cool Smoking
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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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
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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Age Ran Treadmill
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
BETTE MIDLER

Air Giving People
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.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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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Emotional Friends Kind

I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.

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