Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLERWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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 don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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