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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 28th, 1926

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