Joan Rivers Quotes

Catchphrase: Can we talk?

Joan Rivers

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• I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Family
  • Think
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Luck
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• Laughter drives shouting away.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Laughter
  • Away
  • Shouting

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

  

  Pat Boone
  • House
  • Years
  • Same

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• 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.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Home
  • House
  • Dream

• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Service

• I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Form
  • Opposed
  • Any

• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Way
  • Style
  • Relate

• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Past
  • Best
  • Forty

• Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Compassion
  • Same
  • View

• 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.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Success
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Real
  • Character
  • Intelligent

• I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Pages

• The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it. 'Certainly, this yard of the way you still have to go, too, and it will be accounted unto you.'

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Long

• Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Live
  • Home

• I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know, Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • She
  • Guy
  • Daughter

• I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

  

  Glen Campbell
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• Catchphrase: Can we talk?

  

  Joan Rivers