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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Bette Midler

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
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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Flower Heart River
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.
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Media Sleep Way
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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Fighting Race Years
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
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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Enough Foundation Great Lay
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real

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