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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Bette Midler

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
It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Age Culture Mother
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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Journey Sometimes Way
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
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
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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Bigger Life People
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
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
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
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

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

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