If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLERAll these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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