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"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
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Groucho Marx
"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
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"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."
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Robert Klein
"The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding."
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"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it."
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Andrew Denton
"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it."
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"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
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Rowan Atkinson
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
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"You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't."
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"You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't."
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"Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first."
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Bill Cosby
"Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first."
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"If you think you have it tough, read history books."
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Bill Maher
"If you think you have it tough, read history books."
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"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
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Dick Gregory
"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
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"Life is just a bowl of pits."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"Life is just a bowl of pits."
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"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.""
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Emo Philips
"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.""
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"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
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Lucille Ball
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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Simon Pegg
"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it."
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Eddie Murphy
"I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it."
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"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."
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Laura Kightlinger
"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."
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"I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top."
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Victoria Jackson
"I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top."
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"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
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Dylan Moran
"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
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"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
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Evan Sayet
"Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House."
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"If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!"
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Craig Ferguson
"If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!"
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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Ben Elton
"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV."
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Kathy Griffin
"I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV."
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"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
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Ben Elton
"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
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"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
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Wanda Sykes
"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
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"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
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Chris Rock
"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
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"Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it."
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Sarah Silverman
"Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it."
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"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."
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Josh Billings
"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."
Man,
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"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."
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Robert Benchley
"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."
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"Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck."
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George Carlin
"Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck."
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"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
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George Carlin
"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
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"I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year."
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Jimmy Fallon
"I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year."
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"I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that."
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Tracey Ullman
"I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that."
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"There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans."
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Carrot Top
"There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans."
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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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Robert Benchley
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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"It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes."
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George Carlin
"It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes."
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"A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor."
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Kathy Griffin
"A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor."
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"You can kind of feel when things are going to work out."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"You can kind of feel when things are going to work out."
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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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Johnny Vegas
"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."
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Al Franken
"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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Rita Rudner
"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
Old,
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."
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Eric Idle
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."
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"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
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Margaret Cho
"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
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"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."
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Josh Billings
"Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place."
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"Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young."
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Mike Myers
"Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young."
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"Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express."
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Rob Corddry
"Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express."
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"I laughed all the way through Love Story."
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Paul Lynde
"I laughed all the way through Love Story."
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"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
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"Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!"
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Mark McKinney
"Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!"
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"Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake."
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Victoria Jackson
"Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake."
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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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Ben Elton
"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."
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Josh Billings
"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."
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"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."
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Tim Meadows
"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."
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