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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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.
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My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
