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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;

Bette Midler

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Funny Nice Wise
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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Dance Fear Philosophy
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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Hard People Self Esteem Work
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
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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Born Entertaining Way
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
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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Different Stars Years
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
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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Dream Fuzzy

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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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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