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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Bette Midler

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
BETTE MIDLER

Grow Up Mother People
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 made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

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