#ear

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old. ↗

— Keith David

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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. ↗

— Larry David

#empty #ensure #forty #forty years #generation

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. ↗

— Josh Billings

#general #good #pants #right #she

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. ↗

— Josh Billings

#apply #easy #hard #learn #nothing

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ↗

— Josh Billings

#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. ↗

— Russell Banks

#couple #early #eighties #graduate #i

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. ↗

— Larry David

#add #although #army #because #classes

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. ↗

— Larry David

#coming #hear #i #kind #mainstream

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself. ↗

— Larry David

#day #ever #gone #hearing #how