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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Bette Midler

If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
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
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
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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Heaven Home World
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
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
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
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
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice

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