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People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson
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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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Corning
Iowa
John William Carson
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The Great Carsoni
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Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
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What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?
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The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.
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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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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
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I get sick of that old rationalization, We're staying together because of the children. Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.
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Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
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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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I am one of the lucky people in the world I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
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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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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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According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
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Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.
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Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
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When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
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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 thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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