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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.

Bette Midler

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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Flower Heart River
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
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
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
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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Gay God Happened Thank
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years

You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.

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