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Quote #1:   "California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange."
Quote #2:   "The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand."
Quote #3:   "If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it."
Quote #4:   "I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Quote #5:   "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
Quote #6:   "You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
Quote #7:   "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
Quote #8:   "I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
Quote #9:   "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted."
Quote #10:   "Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."
Quote #11:   "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."
Quote #12:   "What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement"
Quote #13:   "A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Quote #14:   "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done."
Quote #15:   "Television is the triumph of machine over people."