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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: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man
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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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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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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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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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