I 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 wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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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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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Writing 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.
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