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My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Elizabeth Taylor’s so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn’t wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now…once he opened the car door for me in the last four years – we were on the freeway at the time.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers 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.’.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’
Joan RiversJoan Rivers You have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SocratesSocrates I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne FrankAnne Frank I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I’m sure that he watches over me from above.
Cristiano RonaldoCristiano Ronaldo Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
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