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If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish


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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.



It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.



Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.



I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.



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You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.



Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.



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My heart belongs to daddy.

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Work is a form of nervousness.




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