Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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