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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

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
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
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
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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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
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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Funny Nice Wise
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
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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Horse Struggle Trying
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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Believe Gay Rumor
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
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
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

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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