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Total contentment is only for cows.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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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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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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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'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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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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