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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

Bette Midler

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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Fighting Race Years
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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Thinking Two War
I 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.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women

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