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A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.

Mort Sahl

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
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In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
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There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
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I found people looked better when they laughed
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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
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There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.
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My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
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New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.
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Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
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If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.
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If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
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We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
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Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
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I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
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If you can't join them, beat them.
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Obama is running again for spite.
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