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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died. -- Victoria Jackson
Ted Cruz knew Ben Carson did not leave the campaign. -- Donald Trump
The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson. -- Don Rickles
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. -- Jim Fowler
For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure. -- Gerard Way
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. -- Natalie Merchant
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her. -- Megan Whalen Turner
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. -- Jim Fowler
There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode. -- Tom Leykis
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck. -- Kevin Spacey
As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain. -- Caroline Rhea
I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time. -- Thomas F. Wilson
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. -- Patti Smith
I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon. -- Ted Cruz
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson. -- Tom Shales
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people. -- Burt Reynolds
Ben Carson`s not really a factor anymore. I hate to say that of anybody, but he isn`t a factor anymore. -- Chris Matthews
I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time. -- Paul Reubens
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. -- Vince Vaughn
He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. -- Doc Severinsen
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one`s religion. -- Rachel Maddow
Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly. -- Joel Garreau
Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that`s why his last wife left him. -- Dean Martin
Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels. -- Jimmy Fallon
Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire. -- Jimmy Fallon
Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is. -- Kevin Drum
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first. -- Tom Brokaw
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him. -- Tony Randall
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him -- Tony Randall
Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life. -- Joan Rivers
I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy. -- Ellen DeGeneres
In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation. -- Kyle Kinane
After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. -- Roseanne Barr
You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow. -- Rachel Vail
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before. -- Dick Cavett
I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business. -- Joan Rivers
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail. -- Studs Terkel
I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class. -- Neil Patrick Harris
If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president? -- Nicholas Kristof
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. -- Susan Stewart
He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger" (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me. -- Steven Wright
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. -- Forest Whitaker
When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work. -- Louis Bacon
There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt. -- Susan Mitchell
Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel. -- David Letterman
Look, again, I'm competing against professional politicians, senators, top of the line. I know Ben Carson is still in, and he's a terrific guy and a talented guy. And so I'm competing against a lot of very good people. -- Donald Trump
We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work. -- Harry Elfont
I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that. -- Don Rickles
The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. -- Wayne Allard
I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can. -- Tara Reid
Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if...something. I'm not quite sure what. -- Ted Cruz
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson. -- Criss Angel
Ben Carson and I don`t have much in common politically. But the fact is when you have kids getting involved in the political process, doing their best to elect the candidates of their choice, that`s what the American democracy is about. -- Bernie Sanders
I watched what this man [Cruz] did to Dr. Ben Carson, who I respect, in Iowa, where he said that Ben Carson is out of the race - he has left Iowa and he's out of the race. And I thought it was disgraceful. -- Donald Trump
During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech right after he lost his front tooth. Which still left him with more teeth than everyone combined at Tommy's Country Ham House. -- Jimmy Fallon
Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good. -- Don Rickles
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. -- Joe R. Lansdale
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it. -- Wayne Newton
Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. -- Dick Ebersol
[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair. -- Megyn Kelly
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. -- John Henrik Clarke
An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth. -- Don Rickles
I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.' -- Josh Homme
I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes. -- Rosemary Clement Moore
I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes. -- Rosemary Clement Moore
I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said. -- Steve King
Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate. -- Kevin Drum
Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. -- Benjamin Carson
This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober. -- Frank Carson
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him. -- Carson Daly
I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street. -- Carson Daly
One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it. -- Carson Kressley
The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars. -- Benjamin Carson

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