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"This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now."
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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."
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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."
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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."
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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."
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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."
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"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home."
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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."
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"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
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"I've been a very lucky actor."
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"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
Laughter
"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."
Success
"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it."
Work
"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."
Work
"I'm very open to the up-and-comers."
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"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."
Thought
"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors."
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"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'."
Music
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