A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes 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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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