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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?

Bette Midler

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
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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Enough Foundation Great Lay
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
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
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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Heaven Home World
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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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
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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Art Cancer Light
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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Distance Men Ocean
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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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Brain Play Random
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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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Entertainment Life Smart
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
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

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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