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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

Bette Midler

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Childhood Dream Thinking
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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Dance Fear Philosophy
If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
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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Flower Heart River
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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Intelligent People Shrinking
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
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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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
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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Pruned Tense Upset
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Cities People Want

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