When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
BETTE MIDLERCulturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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 Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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