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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.
Johnny Carson
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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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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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Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.
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Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
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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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Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.
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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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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 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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I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.
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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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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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A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.
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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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