I’m working my way toward divinity.
BETTE MIDLERJust 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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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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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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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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