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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

Bette Midler

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
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
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 try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Drinking Drunk Perspective
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
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
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Drinking People Smoking
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
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

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