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 MIDLERFrom 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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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