Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world.
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We make a mess of things sometimes but that doesn't make you bad - it makes you human.
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
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I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
