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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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Military Officer
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Corning
Iowa
John William Carson
Carson
The Great Carsoni
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A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.
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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.
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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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I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.
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