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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My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
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The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
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You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
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The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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Catchphrase: Can we talk?
