Bette Midler Quotes

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.'

Bette Midler

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In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

Jimmy Graham

LifeSkyMy LifeCeilingLiterally

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

Matthew Stewart

EducationAgeNew YorkChildBorn

When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

GoHolding OnGetWantingIdeaGrip

Obviously, in the NBA, there's a lot of different decisions that people make. The whole thing in the NBA is that people sometimes have an opportunity to go where they want.

Russell Westbrook

OpportunityPeopleDecisionsGoWant

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.

Rumaan Alam

LifeLearningBeautifulMy LifeNew

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Jose Saramago

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As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

Joseph Parker

YouThreeGiveThrowAmateurMany

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Don Nickles

OklahomaSenateStatePartWere

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

Corbin Bernsen

GodWalkThinkEasyYouWay

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Alice Walker

BecomeSexualityUsBecauseActually

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Alice Walker

ThinkYouKnowWillRaceSurvivor

When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.

Winnie Byanyima

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