You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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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.
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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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