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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Effect Good Read Sensitive
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Chain Devil Soul
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Cynicism Funny Truth
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
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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Independent Sibling Teacher
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Essence Issues Thinking
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Ask Glamorous Grave Think Yourself
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

A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.

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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.

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