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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Robert Orben

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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Magician
Writer
the United States of America
Flies
Humorous
Humor
Funny
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Time
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It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
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If you can laugh together, you can work together.
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Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
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I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.
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Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.
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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
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There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
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The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
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It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
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If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.
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All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
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Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
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I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
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