I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLERI 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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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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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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