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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

Bette Midler

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
Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Country Cutting Parks
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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Journey Sometimes Way
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
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
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
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
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money

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