I picked up a hitch hiker. You’ve got to when you hit them.
EMO PHILIPSInterviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.
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New York’s such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, “I’d like a card.” He says, “You have to prove you’re a citizen of New York.” So I stabbed him.
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Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
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I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don’t know what he looks like.
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The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you’ll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you’ve been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.
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I’m not as good a swimmer as I used to be – thanks to evolution.
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I’ve learned that you can’t make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they’ll panic and give in.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, how are you going to get into the corners?”
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I’d be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I’d run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.
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One man’s pet-stained carpet is another man’s Twister game.
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So I’m at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.
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I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.
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When I was a kid, my favourite time of the year when I was child was that magical first snowfall. I’d yell Yippee! Snow! and run up to the front door and shout You know the deal… You have to let me in now.
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I’m learning Cuban. It’s like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
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Don’t wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
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Computers aren’t intelligent, they only think they are.
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