Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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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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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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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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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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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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