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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Divine God Mad
Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Cooking Life Perfect
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Earn Self Esteem Something
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
I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Country Ocean Wish
Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
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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Mean People Trying
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Doors Ideas Stars
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
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

If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

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