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" I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. "

Bob Newhart

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" With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. "

" Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. "

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" I remember seeing a movie with Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney where they were husband and wife, and they got in bed, and he had on polka-dot pajamas and she had on striped pajamas, and when they got up the next morning he had on the striped pajamas and she had the polka dot pajamas, and that was considered racy at that time! "

" I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. "

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" Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.' "

" I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. "

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People

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" I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun. "

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