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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

Bette Midler

You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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People Space Use
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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Bread Sliced Thinking
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Book Saws World
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
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Jakhammer Poetry Rap
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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Beats Important Off Pissed
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
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Dresses Sound Way
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Attitude People Space
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
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

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