My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
BETTE MIDLEREven if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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