You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERI never know how much of what I say is true.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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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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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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