Bette Midler Quotes

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.

Bette Midler

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My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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A lot of America is stressed by Mother Nature.

Max Baucus

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Ambrose Bierce

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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

Aminatta Forna

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Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Steve Nash

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Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

Michael Korda

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Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Mo Ibrahim

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I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Judith Leiber

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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

January Jones

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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

Dean Devlin

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My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Craig Kilborn

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Football. It sounds simple, but it's always been the case - I don't see myself living without playing.

Anthony Martial

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