The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERWhen I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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