If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERIt’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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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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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