41 Motivational Quotes By Bette Midler That Are Sure To Delight You

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

Like I

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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I

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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.

Me

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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I

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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Me I

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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

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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.

I

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I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

Time Like I

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The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

You Trying

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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I

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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I

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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

I

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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

Art Music I

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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.

You Me Never Time I

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I'm working my way toward divinity.

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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Like

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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

Books

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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Me Like Music

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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

Me Think Music I

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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Love Hope I

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My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

Me I

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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

You Will I

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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'

You Me I

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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Character I

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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

I

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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Never I

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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

Me Happiness I

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I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Me I

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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

Young I

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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

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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.

Children Books I

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Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

I

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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

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Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you're really a yawn if it goes

You

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Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

You Love

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I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

Life Me I

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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Life

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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Never I

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