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" The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. "
Elayne Boosler
Born
Rule
Mothers
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" 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
" I've never been able to write for stand-up. "
Elayne Boosler
Never
Been
Able
" 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
" You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. "
Elayne Boosler
Know
Your
You
" The message of great art is to disturb. "
Elayne Boosler
Great
Great Art
Art
" I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women. "
Elayne Boosler
Think
Women
Myself
" I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners. "
Elayne Boosler
Die
Think
Death
" Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? "
Elayne Boosler
Food
Eight
Party
" 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
" 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
" I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other. "
Elayne Boosler
God
World
I Am
" I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession. "
Elayne Boosler
Never
Remember
Choice
" 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 pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live? "
Elayne Boosler
Basketball
Three
Find
" 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
" Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers. "
Elayne Boosler
You
Know
Better
" I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals. "
Elayne Boosler
People
Animals
Cute
" I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city. "
Elayne Boosler
Best
Best Way
See
" You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot. "
Elayne Boosler
Bald
You
Woman
" I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years. "
Elayne Boosler
Get Married
Fake
Sleep
" There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb. "
Elayne Boosler
Afraid
Comedians
Outside
" Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two. "
Elayne Boosler
Two
Street
Here
" I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with. "
Elayne Boosler
People
Away
I Think
" 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
" Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating. "
Elayne Boosler
Same
Keep
Sweater
" As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year. "
Elayne Boosler
Night
Year
Almost
" 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
" 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
" For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper. "
Elayne Boosler
Human
Me
Newspaper
" 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