It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
BETTE MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
More Bette Midler Quotes
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I’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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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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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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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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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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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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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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