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.
BETTE MIDLERCats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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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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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Music 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.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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