Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERFrom 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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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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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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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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