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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More Bette Midler Quotes
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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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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 think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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