Joan Rivers Quotes
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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The natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences is a systems philosophy. When properly articulated, it can give us both factual and normative knowledge. Exploring such knowledge and applying it in determining our future is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. For if we do not, another chapter of terrestrial evolution will come to an end, and its unique experiment with rational consciousness will be written off as a failure.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
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I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.
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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
