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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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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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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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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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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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.
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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
