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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Bette Midler

A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
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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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Book Children Other Worlds
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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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Funny Humorous Memorable
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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House News Stories Watches
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Art Listening Moving
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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Nominate Oscar Remember
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
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself

I 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 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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