If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERMusic is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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