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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#burt #burt reynolds #his #i #me

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#asked #fresh #grass #hours #i

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#day #difficult #difficult task #every #every day

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ↗

— Diogenes

#former #friends #good #good friends #him

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad. ↗

— Luc Besson

#feel #good #know #position #risk

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fool #man #wise #wise man #wonders

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#converted #day #doing #ebay #games

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#did #get #how #i #life