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Look back at her attention-getting ways

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Legendary comedienne Joan Rivers, who died Thursday at the age of 81, was clear about her love for two things: making people laugh and (sometimes brutally) dissecting celebrities' fashion. In honor of Joan's over-the-top personality, we decided to remember the Hollywood icon by celebrating her most outrageous fashions and one-liners throughout the years.
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"Looking 50 is great — if you're 60."

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"It was a Jewish porno film… one minute of sex and nine minutes of guilt."

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"Katie Holmes is not a very good actress. Did you see her try and play John F. Kennedy's wife? She was so bad he shot himself in it."
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"I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter."

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“If you don’t want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly.”

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"I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor."

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"You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it."
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"My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."

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"She's so fat she's my two best friends."

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“All babies look like Renee Zellweger pushed against a glass window.”

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"I hate thin people. 'Oh, does this tampon make me look fat?'"

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"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."
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"The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.”

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"My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks."

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"My vagina is like Newark. Men know it's there, but they don't want to visit."

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On style: "It’s like herpes, you either have it or you don’t.”