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As you age, feelings do diminish.

Bette Midler

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Assessment Land Party
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Opportunity Phones Waiting
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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Energy Music Performers
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
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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Dream Fuzzy
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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Book Saws World
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Bread Sliced Thinking
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving

As you age, feelings do diminish.

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