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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

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You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.

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Trump is larger than life.

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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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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

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I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: October 17th, 1930

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