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Quote Left Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. Quote Right
Quote Left Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. Quote Right
Quote Left The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.' Quote Right
Quote Left Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce. Quote Right
Quote Left Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week. Quote Right
Quote Left The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that! Quote Right
Quote Left If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. Quote Right
Quote Left I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like ' What I'm going to be if I grow up '. Quote Right
Quote Left The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! Quote Right
Quote Left In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. Quote Right
Quote Left The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can Quote Right
Quote Left There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. Quote Right
Quote Left When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. Quote Right
Quote Left The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. Quote Right
Quote Left A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.'' Quote Right
Quote Left The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them Quote Right
Quote Left Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.' Quote Right
Quote Left Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Quote Right
Quote Left Communism is like one big phone company. Quote Right
Quote Left There are never enough 'I love yous'. Quote Right
Quote Left All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the bre... Quote Right

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