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" I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. "
Lewis Black
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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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Group
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End
" What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.' "
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Family
Go
Know
" I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on. "
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Republican
Understand
Democrat
" 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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Place
People
You
" As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. "
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Gets
Comic
Psychotic
" 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. "
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Cloud
Sky
Sight
" What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding. "
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Dream
Nice
People
" I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition. "
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Business
Know
Nice
" You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo. "
Lewis Black
Life
Alone
My Life
" 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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Nothing
Stress
Trying
" Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. "
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Know
English
Liar
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Sometimes
Thought
People
" I'm a happy person but an angry citizen. "
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Happy
Person
Angry
" Everybody's got cable. "
Lewis Black
Got
Everybody
Cable
" You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. "
Lewis Black
Company
You
Want
" Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular. "
Lewis Black
Interview
Me
Pressure
" If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare. "
Lewis Black
Rich
Tax
Going
" There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. "
Lewis Black
Shut
You
Law
" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "
Lewis Black
Ideas
Bad
Democrats
" My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. "
Lewis Black
Been
Started
Road
" I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape. "
Lewis Black
Thinking
Talk
Start
" 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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Right
Left
Think
" One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it. "
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Important
Leaving
Realize
" One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich. "
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Me
Know
You
" Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share. "
Lewis Black
Socialism
Got
Like
" Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app! "
Lewis Black
Thought
Brain
You
" I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. "
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Kid
Father
Street
" There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. "
Lewis Black
Milk
Soy
Thing
" When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is. "
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You
Everything
Going
" I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough. "
Lewis Black
Play
Enough
Beach