Phyllis Diller Quotes
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
