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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.

Bette Midler

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
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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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Please Singing Thinking
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People

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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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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