Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
BETTE MIDLERCherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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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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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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