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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.

Bette Midler

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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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
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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Doors Ideas Stars
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
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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Ideas Song Voice
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Lady Macbeth Pairs Shoes
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
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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Different Stars Years
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.

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