Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
BETTE MIDLERI 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 read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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