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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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John William Carson
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How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?
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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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There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.
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Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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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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I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.
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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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Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.
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Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.
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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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As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.
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Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
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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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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'm an entertainer I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
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