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"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on."

"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."

"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."

"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

"I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth."

"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."

"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."

"Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me."

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."

"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."
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