Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
BETTE MIDLERYou can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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