“An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.”
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen 
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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