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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

Bette Midler

Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Mean People Trying
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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Men Parent Pay
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Good Life Really
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

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