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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Bette Midler

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
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
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
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
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
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
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
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

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