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I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

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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Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
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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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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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I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.
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There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me.
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Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.
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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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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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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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What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?
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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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When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.
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I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.
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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
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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 loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, I guess you're so big we bore you now.
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