Emo Philips Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
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“I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.”
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“My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.”
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“You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.”
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“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”
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“The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.”
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“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
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“If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.”
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“I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.”
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“I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.”
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“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”
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“I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.”
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“How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.”
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“I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.”
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“I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.”
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“Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.”
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“Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.”
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“I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'”
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“He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.”
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“I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.”
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“Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.”
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“I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.”
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“At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.”
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“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”
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“My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.”
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“Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'”
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“The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.”
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“I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?”
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“People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.”
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“I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.”
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