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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.

Bette Midler

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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Energy Music Performers
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
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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Assessment Land Party
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill
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 parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
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
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
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

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