I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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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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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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