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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

Bette Midler

I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Back Cold Country Cruel Glad
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Brain Fit Men
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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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Clothes Heart People
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
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York

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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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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