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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

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
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
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.
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Grow Up Mother People
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
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
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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Brutal People Previously Today
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
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
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love

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