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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

Bette Midler

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
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
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
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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Book Children Other Worlds
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Certain Kind Wanted
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
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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Dream Fuzzy
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
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
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical

When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

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