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" When you do any job well, it looks very natural. "

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" Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that. "

" We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore. "

" I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible. "

" That's really my main message: everyone is stupid, and no one is more stupid than the rest. "

" We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience. When you say, 'Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians. It's more black and white,' that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics. "

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" If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights. "

" America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool. "

" There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.' "

" Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing. "

" If I'm not touring, I wake up late - 10, 11 A.M. - and one of my favorite things is to go for brunch with my wife. "

" You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions. "

" I always take things too seriously. "

" I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time. "

" That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on. "

" I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got. "

" I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl. "

" We didn't really have vacations when I was a child. "

" My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every day, and that's a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else's schedule but a daily schedule. "

" Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can get cafes and bars. I started comedy here; I lived here for 10 years. I went to university here. This is my home ground. "

" When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day - in the middle of the night, even. "

" I was not a great student. "

" I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent. "

" University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. "

" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "

" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "

" I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought into the conversation. But there's a historical legacy of issues between them. It's hard to be like, 'What about us?' But we are a little underrepresented. "

" I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up. "

" You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically. "

" American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot. "

" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "