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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
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To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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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.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
Characteristics (1823)
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