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This merger is a cataclysmic event, second only to the Big Bang in the amount of energy it produces.


Joan Centrella

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JOAN RIVERS Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ...
JOAN COLLINS I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
JOAN JETT Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us...
JOAN HALIFAX All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l...
JOAN RIVERS I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".
JOAN MANLEY Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from...
JOAN LUNDEN To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER