Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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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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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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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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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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