There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERSome say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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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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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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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