Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
BETTE MIDLERMost people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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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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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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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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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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