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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.

Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.
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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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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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May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
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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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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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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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Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
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You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.
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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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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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Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.
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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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I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.
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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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