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I usually don't work with other people I do the whole show myself.

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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.
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The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.
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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
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Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?
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That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
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I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
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Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.
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You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
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