it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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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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