Joan Rivers Quotes
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
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You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
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But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'
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Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.
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This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.
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Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.
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I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
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Catchphrase: Can we talk?
