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" It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff. "
Lewis Black
Taxes
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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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" 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. "
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" Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff. "
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" Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me. "
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" For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think. "
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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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" Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!' "
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" 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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" And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. "
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" I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. "
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" 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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Sight
" 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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" 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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Nice
" I'm a happy person but an angry citizen. "
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Person
Angry
" You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. "
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You
Work
Go
" Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer. "
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Most
Hang
Out
" I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation. "
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Vacation
Happy
" 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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" People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single. "
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" 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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Everybody
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Values
" I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast. "
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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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American
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" Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas. "
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" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "
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Democrats
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I Believe
" You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps. "
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