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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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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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Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
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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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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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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
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Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.
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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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Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.
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Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.
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I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
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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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May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
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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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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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