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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
Perseverance
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Everything
Humans
Every
Persistence
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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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I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.
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I was my own buddy in camp.
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I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.
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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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[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.
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What I love about jewelry is you can change it for something else without surgery.
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My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me sir.
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I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.
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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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Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.
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if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.
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My daughter refuses to call me mother in public my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.
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Better laid than never.
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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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old age' is always ten years more than we are.
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