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George Gobel

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JOHNNY CARSON We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
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CHAZ BONO I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and televis...
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VAL KILMER I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for...
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VAL KILMER If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back...
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PHYLLIS DILLER I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romant...
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ELI YISHAI We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.
DANA BRUNETTI If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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PAUL THEROUX I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I...
BILLY GRAHAM If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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JESSICA ST. CLAIR My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wou...
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EDDIE VAN HALEN If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for i...
AMITY GAIGE 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I wa...
JAMES GANDOLFINI My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching on...
TEDDY SEARS At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply w...
DAVID BLUNKETT I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
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JOAN COLLINS I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was qu...
SEAN BEAN Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
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J. R. MARTINEZ If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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JIM BARKSDALE If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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PHILIP SCHULTZ If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
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GEORGE COMBE No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN