I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
BETTE MIDLERAll these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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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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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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