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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.

Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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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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It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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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 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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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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May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
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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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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.
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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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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 issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
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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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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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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 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 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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