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"I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian."
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Victoria Jackson
"I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian."
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"There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have."
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"It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay."
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Bill Maher
"It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay."
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"Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up."
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"New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating."
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Bill Maher
"New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating."
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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
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Johnny Vegas
"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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"My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with."
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Johnny Vegas
"My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with."
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"I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't."
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Bill Cosby
"I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't."
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"Oh Satan you're a wily one."
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Craig Ferguson
"Oh Satan you're a wily one."
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"Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife."
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"There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible."
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Victoria Jackson
"There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible."
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"I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it."
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Craig Ferguson
"I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it."
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"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."
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Simon Pegg
"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
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Groucho Marx
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
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"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene."
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"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks."
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Emo Philips
"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks."
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"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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Kamal Ahmed
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous."
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Andy Richter
"We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous."
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"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge."
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Bill Cosby
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge."
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"In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home."
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Harpo Marx
"In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home."
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"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."
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Robert Klein
"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."
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"Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great."
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Paul Reiser
"Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great."
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"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
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Bill Maher
"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
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"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
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Ben Elton
"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
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"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
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David Steinberg
"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
Law,
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"When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top."
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Dane Cook
"When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top."
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"How young can you die of old age?"
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Steven Wright
"How young can you die of old age?"
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"Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher."
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Larry Miller
"Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher."
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"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic."
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Mike Myers
"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic."
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"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."
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Paul Reiser
"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."
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"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
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George Carlin
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
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"I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made."
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Bruce Vilanch
"I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made."
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"The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there."
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David Steinberg
"The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there."
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"The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish."
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Eddie Murphy
"The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish."
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"I learn something in the interviews from time to time."
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Samantha Bee
"I learn something in the interviews from time to time."
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"Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infallibility is a sin in any man.All laws can be broken and are.Often."
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Craig Ferguson
"Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infallibility is a sin in any man.All laws can be broken and are.Often."
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"My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor."
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Dane Cook
"My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor."
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"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."
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Al Yankovic
"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."
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"You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear."
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Johnny Vegas
"You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear."
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"There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing."
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Red Buttons
"There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing."
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"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
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Craig Ferguson
"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
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"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."
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Chevy Chase
"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."
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"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
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Steven Wright
"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
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"Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that."
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Bill Maher
"Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that."
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"Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure."
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Al Franken
"Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure."
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"I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself."
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Ruby Wax
"I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself."
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"We never thought the first movie would bomb."
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Kevin McDonald
"We never thought the first movie would bomb."
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"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
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Johnny Carson
"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
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