We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Previously, 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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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