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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Bette Midler

hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
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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College Kids School
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
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
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
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
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
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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Hard People Self Esteem Work
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Always Breakup Married
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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Essence Issues Thinking
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right

[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

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