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"I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do."
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"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."

"There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public."

"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."

"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."

"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."
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"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."

"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun."

"When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity."

"It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves."

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."

"Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story."

"Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there."

"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it."
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