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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.

Bette Midler

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
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
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
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
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul

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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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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