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Bette Midler Inspirational Quotes (105)

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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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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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There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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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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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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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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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
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My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.
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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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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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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'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'
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