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.
BETTE MIDLERMy idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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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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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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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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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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