I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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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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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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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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