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 don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.
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I think it's incredible because there were guys like Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
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When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Never floss with a stranger.
