I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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