That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

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.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

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.

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.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

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.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

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