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

Bette Midler

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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Gay God Happened Thank
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
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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Funny Nice Wise
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake

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