I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
BETTE MIDLERDo you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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