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" While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk. "
Mo Rocca
Risk
Language
Friends
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" I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. "
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" Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. "
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" Homemade sweaters are always itchy. "
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" Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday. "
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" I am a kamikaze gadfly. "
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" I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around. "
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" I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. "
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" Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. "
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" I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way. "
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" Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. "
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" I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. "
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" One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. "
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" The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't. "
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You
" I hate homemade sweaters. "
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" Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. "
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Bed
Mind
" No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. "
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Rest
" Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out. "
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Never
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" I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies. "
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" A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. "
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Bold
Cave
" I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down. "
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Christmas
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" I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable. "
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" I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. "
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Kid
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Leadership
" It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears. "
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" I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. "
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Me
" I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs. "
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Everyone
" Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now. "
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" Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. "
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" Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? "
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" I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked. "
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" It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world. "
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