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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Bette Midler

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Over You Passion Running
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Laugh Laughing Slave
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
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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Gay God Happened Thank
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Inspiration Memorable Tonight
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
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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Drinking People Smoking
GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Distance God Watching
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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Believe Mean Moving
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 bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Memorable Women
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until

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