There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLER[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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