Elayne Boosler Quotes

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Elayne Boosler

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 18, 1952

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

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I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

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I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

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I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

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I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

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Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

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I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.

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Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.

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I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

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I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.

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Horse racing is waning in popularity.

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I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

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I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

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Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

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My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

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Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

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