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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

Bette Midler

I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Expectations People Unrealistic
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
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Ashes Mortals Shuffle
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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Horse Struggle Trying
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Snow Spring Winter
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Hard People Self Esteem Work
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Different Stars Years
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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Time Trying World
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Infidelity Pace Smell
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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Holiday Religious Self
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
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Book Country Horse
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

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