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Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

Joan Rivers

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Joan Rivers
Age: 81 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 8
Died: 2014
Died: September 4
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Personality
Brooklyn
New York
Joan Alexandra Molinsky
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One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.
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you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.
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I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life my gynecologist examines me by telephone.
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Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
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I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
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I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.
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I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian -- and I stand by it: He's the daughter Cher wishes she'd had.
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That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.
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You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.
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Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all grief is a spectator sport for them.
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On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
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I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.
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Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?
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My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time.
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My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.
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If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.
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my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.
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Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
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I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
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