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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you

Bette Midler

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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Dream Fuzzy
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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Distance Men Ocean
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
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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Essence Issues Thinking
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
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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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas

Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you

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