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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.

Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Easy Lasts Tacky
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
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.

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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.

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