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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

Bette Midler

A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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College Kids School
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
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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Effect Good Read Sensitive
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
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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Assessment Land Party
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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Book Saws World

You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

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