Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLERJust remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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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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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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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 want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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