You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
BETTE MIDLERThe only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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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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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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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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