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" I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any. "
Colin Quinn
Though
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" I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them. "
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" It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. "
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" The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. "
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" With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. "
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" Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. "
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" You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. "
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" My name has zero value. "
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" Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. "
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Everyone
" When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers. "
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Look
" I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America. "
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Never
China
" I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. "
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Say
People Say
" The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. "
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Only
People
" He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. "
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Good
People
Place
" I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. "
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Think
Feel
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" I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. "
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Look
Feel
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" I like guy stuff. "
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Stuff
Like
Guy
" That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky. "
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Being
Job
Lucky
" If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material. "
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Job
Enjoy
Because
" So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. "
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War
Violence
" Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles. "
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Sense
Sense Of Humor
Different
" I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her. "
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Two
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" I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. "
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I Love
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Love
" I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. "
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" You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. "
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" The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. "
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" A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. "
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Everything
" I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows. "
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Working
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Stuff