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All Quotes by author - Hal Sparks

" All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art. "

" Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids. "

" As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. "

" 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker. "

" Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay. "

" If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie. "

" If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying. "

" If I have anything, it's tenacity. "

" If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. "

" If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. "

" I like struggle. "

" I'm a futurist. "

" I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. "

" I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose. "

" I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things. "

" I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them. "

" I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. "

" I try to be as ignorant about things as I can. "

" It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money. "

" It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money. "

" I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. "

" I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old. "

" Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions. "

" Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show. "

" Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams. "

" Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off. "

" People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about. "

" People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. "

" Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. "

" Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company. "

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