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" Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. "
Lewis Black
Cloud
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Sight
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" I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. "
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" My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform. "
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" When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out. "
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" I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time. "
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" My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty. "
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" The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope. "
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" I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people. "
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" My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter. "
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" The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine. "
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You
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" Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis. "
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" In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants. "
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" You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps. "
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" The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan. "
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" I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people. "
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Thought
People
" I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast. "
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Change
People
" Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible. "
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" Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy. "
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He
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" My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. "
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Started
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" Political audiences are not fun. "
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" What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group. "
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" I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck, so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it. "
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" I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet. "
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Apple
Wonder
" Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now. "
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Started
" I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic. "
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" My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation. "
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" Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit. "
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