I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLERFrom the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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