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

Bette Midler

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
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
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Depression Eating Speak
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining 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
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
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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Horse Struggle Trying
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Broken Heart Love Soul
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

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