I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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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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