There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
BETTE MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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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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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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