I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
BETTE MIDLERYou have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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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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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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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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