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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

Bette Midler

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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
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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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
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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People Space Use
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Bigger Life People
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Men Movie Running
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching

The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

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