Phyllis Diller Quotes
I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
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If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.
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I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.
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But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.
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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
