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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. "
Lewis Black
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Energy
Fair
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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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" I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. "
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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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" I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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! "
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" Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. "
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Obvious
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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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Who
Created
Me
" When I'm funny is when I'm angriest. "
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" Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now. "
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Yelling
Started
" 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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Company
You
Want
" 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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Family
People
" If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?' "
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You
Want
Book
" As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. "
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Comic
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" There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. "
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Shut
You
Law
" 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
" You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo. "
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Life
Alone
My Life
" 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 am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism. "
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Angry
Socialism
People
" 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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Week
Right
" 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
" 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
More
" What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group. "
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Group
Know
End
" 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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Cloud
Sky
Sight
" 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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Mother
Life
" Everybody's got cable. "
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Everybody
Cable
" Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve. "
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Hate
Woman
Me
" 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
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