Phyllis Diller Quotes
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.
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I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
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A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
