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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
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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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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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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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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.
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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 bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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 looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.
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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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