[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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 never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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