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Quotes by Entertainer
"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
16
"Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard."
Time,
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"I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that."
16
"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
16
"President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards."
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"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."
16
"Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle."
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"I am much more interested in the process than results."
16
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
16
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
16
"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system."
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"If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all."
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"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."
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"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
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"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."
16
"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
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"It's good to do something for Americans for once."
16
"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."
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"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."
16
"Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal."
16
"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
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"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."
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"I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!"
16
"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal."
16
"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."
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"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world."
16
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
16
"You can cut the tension with a cricket stump."
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"I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary."
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"The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party."
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"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
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"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."
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"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter."
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"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
16
"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."
Vice,
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"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
16
"John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career."
16
"If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric."
Poor,
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"Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald."
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"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
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"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength."
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"Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting."
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"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."
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