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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

Bette Midler

I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
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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Foundation Names Opera
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
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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Grow Up Mother People
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
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
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Brutal People Previously Today
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle

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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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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