Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
BETTE MIDLERFor days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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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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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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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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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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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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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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