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"Be quick to learn and wise to know."
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George Burns
"Be quick to learn and wise to know."
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"We can afford almost any mistake once."
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Joe E. Lewis
"We can afford almost any mistake once."
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"The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."
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"He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do."
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Kevin McDonald
"He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do."
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"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."
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Joe E. Lewis
"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."
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"I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games."
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Sarah Silverman
"I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games."
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"I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling."
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Ron White
"I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling."
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"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
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Henny Youngman
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
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James Thurber
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
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"Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down."
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Mitch Hedberg
"Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down."
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"Funny is funny is funny."
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Bob Newhart
"Funny is funny is funny."
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"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
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Garry shandling
"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
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"The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more."
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"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
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Henny Youngman
"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
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"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me."
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Jim Carrey
"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me."
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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."
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Marty Feldman
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with."
Pen,
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"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
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Robin Williams
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
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"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"
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Alexei Sayle
"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"
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"The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago."
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Julian Clary
"The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago."
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"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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Dylan Moran
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
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Rory Bremner
"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
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"Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?"
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Mike Epps
"Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?"
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"We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place."
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Jerry Lewis
"We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place."
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"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
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Bill Hicks
"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
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"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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Robin Williams
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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"It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it."
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Sarah Silverman
"It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it."
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
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Robert Benchley
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
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"Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that."
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Paul Reiser
"Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that."
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"I went window shopping today! I bought four windows."
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Tommy Cooper
"I went window shopping today! I bought four windows."
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"I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter."
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"Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to."
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Richard Harris Barham
"Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to."
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"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."
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Josh Billings
"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."
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"But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get."
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Norman Wisdom
"But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get."
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"I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it."
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"I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it."
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"Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders."
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"Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders."
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"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
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Steve Martin
"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
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"The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country."
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Dennis Miller
"The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country."
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"I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about."
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Norman Wisdom
"I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about."
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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."
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Fred Allen
"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."
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"Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve."
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Rich Little
"Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve."
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"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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Stephen Fry
"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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"I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?"
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Milton Berle
"I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?"
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"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."
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Robert Klein
"In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel."
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"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
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Rory Bremner
"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
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"We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it."
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Jennifer Saunders
"We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it."
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"It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy."
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Jimmy Fallon
"It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy."
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"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off."
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Ellen DeGeneres
"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off."
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"I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence."
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Julian Clary
"I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence."
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"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."
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Groucho Marx
"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."
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