Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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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’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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