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Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and...

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Lucille Ball: Love yourself first...

Lucille Ball: Love yourself first...

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in...

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Joan Baez: Action is the...

Joan Baez: Action is the...

Action is the antidote to despair.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: Life's challenges are...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: Life's challenges are...

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you...

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Alice Childress: The Black writer...

Alice Childress: The Black writer...

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Source: A Candle in a Gale...

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Joan Didion: A place belongs...

Joan Didion: A place belongs...

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes...

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Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people...

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Mariah Carey: This is for...

Mariah Carey: This is for...

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when...

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Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment....

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Lena Horne: You have to...

Lena Horne: You have to...

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Source: Lena,...

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Christina Aguilera: But for me,...

Christina Aguilera: But for me,...

But for me, the greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch peoples' lives. I know that's a greater...

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Pearl Bailey: I never really...

Pearl Bailey: I never really...

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns...

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Betty Hutton: I don't know...

Betty Hutton: I don't know...

I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be...

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Oprah Winfrey: Always continue the...

Oprah Winfrey: Always continue the...

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you , choose, if you first get to know who you are...

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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

Jenny Joseph: I shall go...

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to...

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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Source:...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I want Carl...

Whoopi Goldberg: I want Carl...

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

Source: Referring to guests she wanted...

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Lily Tomlin: Man invented language...

Lily Tomlin: Man invented language...

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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