Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I love my sleep.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
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Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.
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At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
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You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
