If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
BETTE MIDLERI fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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.”
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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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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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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