I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERI love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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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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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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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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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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 a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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