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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.

Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
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
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Art Cancer Light
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Dance Fear Philosophy
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick

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