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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

Bette Midler

I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
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
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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People Space Use
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
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
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want
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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Depression Eating Speak
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

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