A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
BETTE MIDLERWhere did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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 want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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 fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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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