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.”
BETTE MIDLERSometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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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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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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