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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.

Bette Midler

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.
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Book Country Horse
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’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
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
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
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.
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Holiday Religious Self
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
When 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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Done Looks Mountain
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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Flower Heart River

Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.

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