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" I'm a happy person but an angry citizen. "
Lewis Black
Happy
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" 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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" 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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" 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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Father
People
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Corn
" I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. "
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" In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks. "
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Play
Country
" The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself. "
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Yourself
Myself
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Everybody
Cable
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Ended
Up
Sense
" If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them. "
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Vote
Think
" 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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God
Funny
Good
" 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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Leaving
Realize
" It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff. "
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Taxes
Question
Privilege
" I'm a Jew. "
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Jew
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Woman
Me
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You
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Yelling
Started
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Bipartisan
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Focused
Got
" Usually I'm too tired to apologize. "
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Tired
Too