"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"
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"The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev."
"We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities."
"I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87."
"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?"
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?"
"Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?"
"I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it."
"I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen."
"When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?"
"I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus."
"There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches."
"The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work."
"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement."
"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
"And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye."
"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
"Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand."