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" I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. "
Lewis Black
Me
Head
Love
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" What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense. "
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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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" All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew. "
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" I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever. "
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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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" A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' "
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" It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.' "
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" Self-love is a big part of golf. "
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" 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. "
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" Everybody's got cable. "
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" If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat. "
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Ego
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" I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should. "
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Great
Down
" 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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You
" I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not. "
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" The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die. "
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Talk
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" Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas. "
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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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Creepy
" 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. "
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Thinking
Talk
Start
" I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. "
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New York
New
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" One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. "
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Nothing
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Comedy
" 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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Democrat
" 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. "
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" People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single. "
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Enjoy
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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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" As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. "
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" This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. "
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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
Political
" Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. "
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Obvious
Stupid
" Usually I'm too tired to apologize. "
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Tired
Too
" The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either. "
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Dealing
Democrats
Reality