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.
BETTE MIDLERI can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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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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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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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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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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