I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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More Bette Midler Quotes
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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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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