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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

You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
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
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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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
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
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
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
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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten

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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