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'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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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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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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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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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
