Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
BETTE MIDLERMost people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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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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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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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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’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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