Joan Rivers Quotes
Why do wives have to spend so much time dusting, vacuuming, mopping, making beds, washing dishes, when you just have to do it all again six months later?
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
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I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.
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I was shy. I was more than shy.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.
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Why do wives have to spend so much time dusting, vacuuming, mopping, making beds, washing dishes, when you just have to do it all again six months later?
