Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERThe outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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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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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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