Phyllis Diller Quotes
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Wearers of rings and chains!Pray do not take the pains To set me right.In vain my faults ye quote;I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.
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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
