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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

Ron White

You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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Brain Laugh People Somebody Stage Surgeon Teach Walk
My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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Funny Intent Preach Preacher Stage Uncle Use Watch
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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All Record Country Flip Had People Went
The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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Let Go Next Thought Time
I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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Except Imagine Kep Life Listen Long People Plan Specific Talk
There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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Act Backlog Exist Fire People Reason
There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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Always Been Century Comic More Other Play Quater Time
Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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Call Country Day Kinds Know Like Mean Other Reprobate Somebody Way
I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Central Comedy Enjoy Watch
I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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Famous Heard Made Material People Popular Stuff
I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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Few Good Married Time
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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Fascinate First Football Game Hand Imagine Life Listen Made Syllable Talk Thing
Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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Comedy Great No Overhead
I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Beat People Plumber Rather Would
I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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Daughter Face Guy Hold Left Limb Month Smile Talk Though
I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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Care Good Idea Laugh Live Make Money Much People

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

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