Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
BETTE MIDLERPreviously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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