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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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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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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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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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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Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.
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We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
