People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
BETTE MIDLERYou can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
BETTE MIDLERI celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
BETTE MIDLERSome say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
BETTE MIDLERIf only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERI wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
BETTE MIDLERIf they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
BETTE MIDLERIf you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
BETTE MIDLERI decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
BETTE MIDLERThere’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
BETTE MIDLERI always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERCherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLERWithout passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
BETTE MIDLERI made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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