People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
BETTE MIDLERWhen I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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