I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

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I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

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Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

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It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

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If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

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We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

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Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

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Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

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Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

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I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

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I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

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Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

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I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

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Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

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All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

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Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.

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Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

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I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.

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