There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
ALAN KINGBanks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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