I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.
EMO PHILIPSI used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, “I am a bulemic”.
More Emo Philips Quotes
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My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
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I’ve always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.
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Probably the toughest time in anyone’s life is when you have to murder a loved one because they’re the devil.
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So I’m at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.
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When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
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Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.
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Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
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My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn’t be home until a certain hour.
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I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
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I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don’t know what he looks like.
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My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother’s hip replacement. Because, you know… You break it, you buy it.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, how are you going to get into the corners?”
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My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid…and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.
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Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.
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I don’t know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I’m fairly confident that I’ll be taken off of it for one.
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