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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

Bette Midler

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
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 confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
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
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
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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Cities People Want
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
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
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married

I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

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