it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes 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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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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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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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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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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