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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

Bette Midler

I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Certain Kind Wanted
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
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
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
Just 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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Snow Spring Winter
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
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
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
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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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting

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