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There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
Alan King
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Alan King
Age: 76 †
Born: 1927
Born: December 26
Died: 2004
Died: May 9
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
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My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have? I said, Fire and theft. The lawyer frowned. Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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