Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLERI’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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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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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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