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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

Bette Midler

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
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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Art Interested Not Perfect
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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Art Cancer Light
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
Writing 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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Book Country Horse
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Depression Eating Speak
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll

Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

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