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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?

Bette Midler

One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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College Kids School
I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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Art Interested Not Perfect
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Ecosystems Movie Sick
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Believe Gay Rumor
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Light Love You See
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Helen Orchestra Singing
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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Depression Eating Speak
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Else Growing Somewhere Thinking
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
We are all part of the ecosystem.
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All Ecosystems Parts
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
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Art Cancer Light
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Age Birthday Funny Mind

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