You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERIn 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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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Even 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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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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 [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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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