We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
BETTE MIDLERMost 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.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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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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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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