"Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was."

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Source : "Joan Rivers gave misfit girls permission to dream" by Judy Gold, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.

Judy Gold

#Rivers Quotes #Speech Quotes #Broke Quotes

“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press
“I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”
“What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?”
“We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.”
“I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.”
“I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.”
“I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!”

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