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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Funny Nice Wise
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
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 forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake

I never know how much of what I say is true.

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