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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.
Bette Midler
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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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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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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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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That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. 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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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 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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When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore. I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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