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

Bette Midler

You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Daughter Littles Sophie
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Foundation Names Opera
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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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Dump Garbage Possible Wanted
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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House News Stories Watches
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.
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Brain Play Random
Total contentment is only for cows.
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Contentment Cows Total
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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Block Positively Sound
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Best Hard People Work
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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All Delivered Want
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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Careers People Want

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