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Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.
Richard Jeni
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Richard Jeni
Age: 49 †
Born: 1957
Born: April 14
Died: 2007
Died: March 10
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I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.
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Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank.
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There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
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Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!
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When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case ten people see him it's a cult ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
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Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.
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In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.
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You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?
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It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?
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Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.
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If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.
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We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.
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If carrots are good for my eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?
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The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?
Richard Jeni
Easiest job you could ever have... whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create reasonable doubt.
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Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.
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In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.
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America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!
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Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.
Richard Jeni
I met a girl, we ate, we drank, had sex, got married, had affairs, broke up - God, what a night that was!
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