Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
ALAN KINGMy favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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