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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

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
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Rocks Roll Sold Soul
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Drama Hard Work Real
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Born Entertaining Way
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Air Giving People
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Anything Stretch Work
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Obligation People Potential
From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Age Ran Treadmill

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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