Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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More Bette Midler Quotes
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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