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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
Comedian
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
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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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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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