Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
BETTE MIDLERI wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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You 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.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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From 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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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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.
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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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