That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
ALAN KINGEating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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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.
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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