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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

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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Assessment Good Life Really
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
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
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
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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
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
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves

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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