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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Bette Midler

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
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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Ideas Song Voice
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
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
As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
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
Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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Assessment Good Life Really
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
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

I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

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