You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
BETTE MIDLERHoney, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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