I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLERRap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I 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?
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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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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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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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