If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERThank 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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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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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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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