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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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