The ego is like a kid in the basement: It’s best to keep him busy.
TIM ALLENThey say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.
More Tim Allen Quotes
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When you’re 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.
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I think there’s a percentage that don’t realize, that don’t know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It’s more of a it’s not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
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Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.
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When somebody tells you they’re not very smart, they’re saying exactly the opposite.
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I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody’s car.
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But separate a man from his car – that’s inhuman.
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I blend memories. I blend them into one that’s funny. I exaggerate to clarify.
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Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.
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When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine – this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.
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Real men don’t use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer’s opinion on how to put this together.
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Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, “And let there be aluminum siding.” Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree’s on a golf course, all the better.
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I do a lot of family shows.
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I have a thing for tools.
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Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.
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Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
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