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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler

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
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Different People Way
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Flower Heart River
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Media Sleep Way
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Art Cancer Light
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
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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Cities People Want
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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Snow Spring Winter
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Brutal People Previously Today
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Heaven Home World
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
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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Life Love Romantic
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Please Singing Thinking
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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
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
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Brain Play Random
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

I never know how much of what I say is true.

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