I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLERIf 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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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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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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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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