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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

I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
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
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
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 try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
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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Essence Issues Thinking
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
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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

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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