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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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
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Never floss with a stranger.
