If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERIf you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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