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"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
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"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."

"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."

"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."

"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist."

"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."

"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."
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"So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date."


"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."


"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"


"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."


"I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'"


"I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."
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