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.
BETTE MIDLERSelf-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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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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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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