Joan Rivers Quotes
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.
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There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.
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I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.
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We cannot find the kingdom of God simply by looking for it externally, because if we do not carry it within, it will not be recognizable without.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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Never floss with a stranger.
