People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERYou can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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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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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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 love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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 feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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