I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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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