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" I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about. "
Steven Wright
Need
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I Can
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" I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. "
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" When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' "
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" Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this before. "
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" When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them. "
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" In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it. "
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" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "
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" I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. "
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" To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is. "
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" I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. "
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" I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. "
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" I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy. "
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" My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about. "
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" Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at. "
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" I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke. "
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" I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. "
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" Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. "
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" At one point he decided enough was enough. "
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" I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. "
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" It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?' "
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" In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. "
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" I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.' "
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" I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years. "
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" I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. "
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" I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends. "
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" When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?' "
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