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" I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. "
Fred Allen
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" The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. "
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" It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. "
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" My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. "
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" You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. "
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" A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. "
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" The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. "
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" If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. "
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" A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. "
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Person
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Decide
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" My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. "
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Never
Father
Children
" Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. "
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Well Done
" I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. "
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Got
Day
" The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. "
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Strikes
First
Paris
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Today
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" What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. "
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Mind
Allow
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Success
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Long
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