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In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

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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
Humans
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Persistence
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Perseverance
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I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!
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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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Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
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I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: Last Girl Before Freeway.
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Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.
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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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Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts.
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A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.
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I’m never without a bandage.
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