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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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I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.
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May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.
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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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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
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I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.
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Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.
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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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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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I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.
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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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In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.
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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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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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I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.
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Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
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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'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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When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value 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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