You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
BETTE MIDLERMe, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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 wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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