I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
BETTE MIDLERHere I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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