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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest."

"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
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"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."

"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."

"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."

"I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times."

"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
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