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"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"People are essentially red meat. They are."
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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."
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"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."
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"We rest our case on the production numbers."
Numbers
"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."
People
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."
Living
"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
Truth
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
Life
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
Country
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
Humor
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
Death
"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."
People
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
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