If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERAfter thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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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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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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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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