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

Bette Midler

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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Assessment Good Life Really
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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Art Interested Not Perfect
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
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
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
When 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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Assessment Land Party
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
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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Essence Issues Thinking
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
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
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins

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