I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLERSelf-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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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 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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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.
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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 have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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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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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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