"You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand."
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"I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person."
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"Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something"
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"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."
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"It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."
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"A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button."
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"It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
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"A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven."
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"Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
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"Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."
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"Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air."
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"Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really."
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"All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me."
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"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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"Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!"
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"The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev."
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"We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities."
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"You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!"
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"There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."
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"Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks."
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