Joan Rivers Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
