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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

Bette Midler

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Men Parent Pay
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
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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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
I 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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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

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