Phyllis Diller Quotes
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
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I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.
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I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
