I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLERRap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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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 fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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