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.
BETTE MIDLERI would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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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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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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