Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLERSelf-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLERSome say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
BETTE MIDLERMost people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERI try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLERWriting 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.
BETTE MIDLER[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
BETTE MIDLERJust because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
BETTE MIDLERI have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
BETTE MIDLERIt’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
BETTE MIDLERAll these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
BETTE MIDLERLet 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.
BETTE MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLERThere’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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