Cherish 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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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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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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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