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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Sullivan will be successful as long as other people have talent.

Always On Sunday. Ed Sullivan: An Inside View (1968)

An advertising agency is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

What does Sullivan do? He points at people. Rub meat on actors and dogs will do the same thing.

Always On Sunday. Ed Sullivan: An Inside View (1968)

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Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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