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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.

Bette Midler

If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
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
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
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
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
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’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
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
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
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
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas

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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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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