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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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John William Carson
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Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.
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I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.
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Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
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I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.
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If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.
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I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in motion pictures, I am against polluting the oceans of the world, I am for every nationality having its own homeland, I am against whacking baby seals on the head, and I am for saving the whales.
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Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.
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Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
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George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?
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Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.
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I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
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The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
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I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.
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You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.
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Entertainment is like any other major industry it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made if you can't, you're out.
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Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.
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There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.
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There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.
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I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, I guess you're so big we bore you now.
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