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13 quotes by Mort Sahl

Mort Sahl Sahl with Ed Sullivan for a 1960 television special. Birth name Morton Lyon Sahl Born (1927-05-11) May 11, 1927 (age 87) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Medium Stand-up, film Nationality American Years active 1953–present Genres Satire, political satire, Improvisational comedy Subject(s) American politics, American culture Influences Will Rogers, Henry Morgan, H. L. Mencken Influenced George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Dick Gregory,...
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My life needs editing.

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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

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People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

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I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

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Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

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When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

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I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

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I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

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I'm a radical, and I always have been.

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If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

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