From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back. Bette Midler More Quotes by Bette Midler More Quotes From Bette Midler 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. Bette Midler fuzzy would-be dream We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that. Bette Midler nerves divine I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life. Bette Midler audience lucky enough You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again. Bette Midler sophie daughter littles I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return. Bette Midler clothes heart people I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh. Bette Midler fun giving people I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little. Bette Midler shrinking intelligent people The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable. Bette Midler birth virgins giving Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation. Bette Midler fighting race years One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic? Bette Midler college kids school Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened. Bette Midler threatened feels people Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them. Bette Midler body song people [On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her. Bette Midler royalty spite princess I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art. Bette Midler listening art moving The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home. Bette Midler home heaven world I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. Bette Midler grudge bears mind I'm working my way toward divinity. Bette Midler divinity my-way way After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler funny-birthday age mind Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me. Bette Midler happened gay thank-god If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy. Bette Midler ukulele picks ifs
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