There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLER[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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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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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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