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" I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.' "
Elayne Boosler
Dog
Time
Money
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" When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. "
Elayne Boosler
New
Black
End
" We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face. "
Elayne Boosler
Animals
Face
Wild
" I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about. "
Elayne Boosler
Joke
Issues
Pretty
" Horse racing is waning in popularity. "
Elayne Boosler
Horse
Horse Racing
Popularity
" I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. "
Elayne Boosler
Place
Truth
Thought
" I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. "
Elayne Boosler
Matter
Three
Door
" The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. "
Elayne Boosler
Born
Rule
Mothers
" I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club. "
Elayne Boosler
Much
Than
Theater
" I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble. "
Elayne Boosler
Choice
Losing
Money
" I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. "
Elayne Boosler
Person
Trapped
Body
" Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded. "
Elayne Boosler
Frontier
Ever
Almost
" When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star. "
Elayne Boosler
Day
You
Comedy
" Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying. "
Elayne Boosler
Go
Audience
You
" I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards. "
Elayne Boosler
America
You
Art
" I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.' "
Elayne Boosler
History
Car
Thankful
" My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. "
Elayne Boosler
Men
Wilderness
Ancestors
" We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture. "
Elayne Boosler
Drawing
Never
Picture
" Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? "
Elayne Boosler
Money
Great
Giving
" I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. "
Elayne Boosler
Think
People
Funny
" My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning. "
Elayne Boosler
Belief
Congress
America
" I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city. "
Elayne Boosler
Best
Best Way
See
" Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? "
Elayne Boosler
Food
Eight
Party
" Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full. "
Elayne Boosler
Speech
Court
Now
" I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals. "
Elayne Boosler
People
Animals
Cute
" While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips. "
Elayne Boosler
Space
Lost
Young
" Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help. "
Elayne Boosler
You
Sides
Reading
" San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. "
Elayne Boosler
Liberal
Politics
People
" I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food. "
Elayne Boosler
Food
Thankful
Me
" I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers. "
Elayne Boosler
Find
Us
You
" A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life. "
Elayne Boosler
Life
Page
Long