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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

Bette Midler

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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Effect Good Read Sensitive
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
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.”
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College Kids School
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
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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Dream Fuzzy

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

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