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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

Bette Midler

When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
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
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers

In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

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