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Vote: | An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. |
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Vote: | Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! |
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Vote: | Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. |
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Vote: | Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. |
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Vote: | Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. |
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Vote: | First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. |
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Vote: | I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. |
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Vote: | I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. |
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Vote: | I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. |
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Vote: | I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. |
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Vote: | I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. |
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Vote: | Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. |
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Vote: | There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. |
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Vote: | Well, excuuuuuse me!!!! |
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Vote: | What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. |
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Vote: | When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well. |
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Vote: | You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. |
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Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer born in Waco, Texas and raised in Orange County, California.
In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Martin was voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
Early years Martin worked at the Bird Cage Theater in Knott's Berry Farm and at the Magic Shop at Disneyland as a teenager, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals.
Martin majored in philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, but dropped out. Nevertheless, his time there changed his life:
Martin's girlfriend in 1967 was a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and helped Martin land a job as a writer for the program. Along with the other writers for that show, Martin won an Emmy Award in 1969. Martin also wrote for John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado at one point) and The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
He then started performing his own material, sometimes as an opening act for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Carpenters, after which began writing for such variety shows as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. He also appeared on these shows, and numerous others, in numerous comedy skits.
He appeared at San Francisco's The Boarding House among other locations. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1975.
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