People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERI celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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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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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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