Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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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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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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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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It’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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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