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.
BETTE MIDLERI firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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