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.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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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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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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