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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

Bette Midler

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
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
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
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Frightened Luck Out
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

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