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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
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James Thurber
"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
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"Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed."
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Phyllis Diller
"Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed."
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"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
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Amy Poehler
"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
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"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
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Mitch Hedberg
"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
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"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."
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Dylan Moran
"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."
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"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
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Jerry Stiller
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."
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"More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own."
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Jay Leno
"More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own."
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"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."
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Patton Oswalt
"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."
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"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."
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Kate Clinton
"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."
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"We're careful not to saturate people."
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David Brenner
"We're careful not to saturate people."
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"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
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Jim Carrey
"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
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"Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?"
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Bill Maher
"Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?"
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"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
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Ellen DeGeneres
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
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"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."
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Chris Rock
"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."
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"She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction."
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Bob Hope
"She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction."
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"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
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Eddie Izzard
"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
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"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?""
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Johnny Carson
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?""
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"I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing."
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Ben Stiller
"I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing."
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"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"
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Bill Maher
"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"
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"It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh."
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Julian Clary
"It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh."
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"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."
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George Burns
"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."
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"We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector."
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David Letterman
"We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector."
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"If elected, I will win."
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Pat Paulsen
"If elected, I will win."
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"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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Josh Billings
"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."
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Paul Lynde
"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."
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"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me."
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Hugh Laurie
"One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me."
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"I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front."
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Garry shandling
"I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front."
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
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Josh Billings
"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."
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"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
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A. Whitney Brown
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
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"Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years."
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Ben Stiller
"Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years."
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"That's life when you're on the D-list."
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Kathy Griffin
"That's life when you're on the D-list."
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"Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to."
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Paul Lynde
"Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to."
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"I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I."
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Randy Newman
"I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I."
Tax,
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"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."
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"I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character."
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Dana Carvey
"I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character."
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"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
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Bill Cosby
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
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"You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks."
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Robin Williams
"You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks."
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"Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions."
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Evan Sayet
"Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions."
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"Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers."
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Jay Leno
"Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers."
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"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."
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Gracie Allen
"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."
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"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need."
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Bill Maher
"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need."
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"I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing."
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Sarah Silverman
"I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing."
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"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."
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Jimmy Fallon
"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."
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"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."
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Dick Gregory
"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."
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"My whole act is confession."
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Shelley Berman
"My whole act is confession."
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"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."
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Spike Milligan
"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."
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"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
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George Carlin
"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
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"A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh."
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Wanda Sykes
"A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh."
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"The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap."
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Bill Maher
"The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap."
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"I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down."
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Tim Vine
"I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down."
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