Tommy Smothers Quotes

#1. Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

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#2. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

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#3. I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!

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#4. Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

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#5. You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

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#6. You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

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#7. The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

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#8. There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is ... what you get other people to believe.

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#9. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

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