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Meir Kahane on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace, 1985: on his Knesset bill "astonishingly identical to the Nuremberg laws" and his prediction that a Jew, not an Arab, would kill him. Five years later he was shot dead in Manhattan by an Egyptian-born Arab. #DeadWrongHistory
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Norm Macdonald on Letterman on 8th May 2015, ill with cancer he told nobody about, closing his farewell stand-up: "Mr Letterman is not for the mawkish and he has no truck for the sentimental, but if something is true, it is not sentimental. And I say in truth, I love you."
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Sam Kinison was an ordained Pentecostal preacher before he became a comedian. He debuted this at Rodney Dangerfield's HBO special in 1985. He died in a car crash 7 years later aged 38. George Carlin called him "the last of the truly dangerous comedians."
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Whitney Houston on Diane Sawyer, December 2002, nine years before her death at 48 in a Beverly Hilton bathtub: "First of all, let's get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack."
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Ted Bundy in his final interview with Christian psychologist James Dobson, hours before his execution on January 24, 1989: "To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done."
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John Wayne Gacy hours before his execution on May 10 1994, in his final phone interview with Bill O'Reilly of Inside Edition: "Do you feel any sense of remorse about anything that's happened here? Well, considering I've never had a fair trial, how am I supposed to feel?"
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Christopher Hitchens on Anderson Cooper, August 2010, six weeks after his cancer diagnosis and 16 months before his death at 62: "The candle at both ends gave a lovely light. If you can hold it down on the smokes and the cocktails, you might be well advised."
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David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, 1996, twelve years before he killed himself: "Compulsory viewing of television is evil. One of the last refuges in which we can read are these interstitial zones, waiting for planes, check-out lines. Now airports have televisions."
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Grace Hopper on Letterman in 1986, aged 79, holding a piece of wire: "That is the distance light travels in a billionth of a second. When an admiral asks why it takes so long to send a message by satellite, you point out there are a very large number of nanoseconds."
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Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose in August 2010, two months after his oesophageal cancer diagnosis: "I can't tell you how little like sex I feel like talking about. I've never felt so unmanned in my entire life. The initiative is with the tumour. It's rather dictating terms."
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