I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERI’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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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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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.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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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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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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