“I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration.”
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“Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.”
“So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.”
“People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.”
“I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.”
“More people write poetry than read it.”
“There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!”
“I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.”
“Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.”
“The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.”
“Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.”
“I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.”
“First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.”
“I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.”
“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.”
“I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.”
“It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.”
“People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.”
“I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.”
“Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.”