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.
BETTE MIDLERWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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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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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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