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Enough about me. What do you think about me?

Bette Midler

One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
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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Heaven Home World
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
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
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
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

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