Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLEREveryone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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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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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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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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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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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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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