The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
BETTE MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Do 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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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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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