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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.

Bette Midler

If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Actresses Being Different Singers
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Block Cities Country
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
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
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Cutting Interested Rocks Roll
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
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 I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Certain Kind Wanted
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman

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