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David Zucker

"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."

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"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."

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"GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy!"

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"They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within."

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"I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'"

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"Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size."

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"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

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"Beware of giggle grins, they are highly contagious."

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"I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes, because I feel I might die otherwise."

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"Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all."

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"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."

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"I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is."
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