If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
BETTE MIDLERYou can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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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!
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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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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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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