When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
BETTE MIDLERYou can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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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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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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 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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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