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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

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
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
My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Daughter Independent Real
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Groups People Two
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
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
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
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
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
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking

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