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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

Bette Midler

it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
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
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
hen 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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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
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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Assessment Good Life Really
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
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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 was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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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Bread Sliced Thinking
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
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
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
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 wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

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