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.
BETTE MIDLERI try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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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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