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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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