I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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