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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.

Bette Midler

I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
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
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Stories Way Years
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
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’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
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Good Life Really
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
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
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.

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