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.
BETTE MIDLERIt’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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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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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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