Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLERCulturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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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’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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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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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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