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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.

Bette Midler

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Certain Kind Wanted
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
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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Snow Spring Winter

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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