I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
BETTE MIDLERI fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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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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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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