I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
DICK GREGORYPolitical promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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