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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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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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
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Our new app increases the exposure of Engel & Volkers' premier services and properties to the growing number of iPad users who are researching their real estate markets, locally and globally.
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We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'
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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
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Ellen Page and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film Into the Forest, I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
