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Phyllis Diller
Age: 95 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 17
Died: 2012
Died: August 20
Actor
Comedian
Comedienne
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Lima
Ohio
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Revisited
Tragedy
Comedy

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It's hard to find a negligee in my size. I wear a Junior Mister.
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Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.
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We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .
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My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.
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When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch.
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If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy.
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Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.
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It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
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My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!
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I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
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