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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.

Bette Midler

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
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Gay God Happened Thank
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
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Bears Grudge Mind
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Balls People
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
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Thinking Two War
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Fun Giving People
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
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Funny Jealousy Success
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Brutal People Previously Today
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Compassion Feelings Feels
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Grow Up Mother People
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Cheese Cottages Country

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