For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
BETTE MIDLERI’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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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 never know how much of what I say is true.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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