Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERI’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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