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" I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better. "
Denis Leary
Better
Believe
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" How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean. "
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" Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. "
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" We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me! "
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" If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.' "
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" People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes! "
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" Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate. "
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" My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York. "
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" What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.' "
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" When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era. "
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" Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. "
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" I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.' "
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" There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. "
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Wearing
Middle
" If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while. "
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Doing
Me
" I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award. "
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Down
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" In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life. "
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Up
" The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work. "
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" I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television. "
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Process
Love
You
" Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes. "
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" I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? "
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" My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. "
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" Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. "
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Free
Comedy
" I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids. "
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" I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy. "
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" My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. "
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Father
" Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind. "
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