Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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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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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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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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