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I don't know how electricity works. All I know is that it calms me.
Emo Philips
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Emo Philips
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 7
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedy
Chicago
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Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
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The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.
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Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
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I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.
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They have a sign at the beach, no glass bottles. I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
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I learned about sex the hard way... from books.
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In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted should I yay him or nay him? pantywaist ever again.
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I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
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My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.
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I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
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I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.
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When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.
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My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'
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I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.
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He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
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I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.
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I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!
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I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.
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