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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”

Bette Midler

Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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Fighting Race Years
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Believe Fashion World
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
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
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
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
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
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
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

One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”

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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”

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