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When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
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My fat never made me less money.
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People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.
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I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.
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Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.
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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
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I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.
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You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
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Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
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I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
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I bought all those fitness videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.
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'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by
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