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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.

Bette Midler

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
In 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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Horse Struggle Trying
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
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
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Journey Sometimes Way
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Divine Myself Nerves
Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Hack Just
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
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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Done Looks Mountain

That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.

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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.

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