When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
BETTE MIDLERI love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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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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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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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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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Writing 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.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see 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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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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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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