If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLERI was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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