I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLEREveryone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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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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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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hen 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.
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