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" Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share. "
Lewis Black
Socialism
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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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" I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. "
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" No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It's your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn't mean they bought the rest of your life. "
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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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" If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare. "
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Going
" I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. "
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" Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit. "
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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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" 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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" 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
" If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row. "
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" 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
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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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Love
Day
Find
" I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say. "
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Amazed
Say
Anyone
" It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it! "
Lewis Black
Got
Fix
Without
" 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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Just
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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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Vegas
Play
Country
" I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. "
Lewis Black
Pig
Selfish
Little
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Dream
Nice
People
" Political audiences are not fun. "
Lewis Black
Political
Fun
Audiences
" One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. "
Lewis Black
Nothing
Interesting
Comedy
" Everybody's got cable. "
Lewis Black
Got
Everybody
Cable
" 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
" You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win. "
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I Am
Got
" Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. "
Lewis Black
Know
English
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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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See
Wait
Nobody
" 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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America
Parents
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" 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
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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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Chicken
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" Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise. "
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Great
You
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