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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.

Bette Midler

[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
It’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.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
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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Different People Way
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
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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Country Ocean Wish
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women

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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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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