Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
BETTE MIDLERFor days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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