I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
BETTE MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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 always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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