If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERI sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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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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Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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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.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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