That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
BETTE MIDLERThe outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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