Phyllis Diller Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.
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I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.
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I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn't go visit them.
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I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
