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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

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Funny, Witty, Names

Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

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Inspirational, Art, Real

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So little time and so little to do.

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Funny, Time, Work

Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”

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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

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Mind, Indecision

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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

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Music, Trying, Movement

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A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

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Thinking, Firsts, Form

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I am no more humble than my talents require.

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Humble, Talent, Be Humble

"Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past". Book edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2003.

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I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

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Men, Self, Helping

Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

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Reviews, Bad Reviews, My Friends

Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

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Hate, Realization, Orchestra

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George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

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Falling In Love, Art, Love You

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[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

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Islands, Government, Desert

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I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

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Play, Piano, Attractive

"Fictional character: Sid Jeffers". "Humoresque", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

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Drinking, Feel Good, Drink

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Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

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Baby, Sleep, Wool

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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

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Wise, Carnegie, Halls

Quoted in Evan Esar, The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

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Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

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Husband, Lovely, Persons

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I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

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Unsympathetic

Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

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Hate, Triumph, Habit

Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

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Art, Iron, Entertainment

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When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

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Book, Sleep, I Can

Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”

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I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

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Mistress, Stories, Bears

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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

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Baseball, Ballet, Fairy

"Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mind, Dwight D Eisenhower, Dwight

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I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

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Watches, Shows, Shore

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Born: December 27, 1906
Died: August 14, 1972
Occupation: Pianist
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