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" You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy. "
Lewis Black
Just
Focused
Got
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" The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable. "
Lewis Black
Find
Holiday
Right
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Art
Many
Go
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Cloud
Sky
Sight
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Chicken
Life
My Life
" Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny. "
Lewis Black
I Am
Say
Funny
" The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die. "
Lewis Black
Day
Talk
You
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Some
Yelling
Started
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Thought
Mother
Life
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Love
Day
Find
" The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine. "
Lewis Black
Comedy
You
Political
" Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas. "
Lewis Black
Online
No Time
Always
" Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit. "
Lewis Black
Ended
Up
Sense
" 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
" As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. "
Lewis Black
Gets
Comic
Psychotic
" The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan. "
Lewis Black
American
Bipartisan
Public
" I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. "
Lewis Black
Kid
Father
Street
" I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should. "
Lewis Black
Kid
Great
Down
" I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say. "
Lewis Black
Amazed
Say
Anyone
" It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity. "
Lewis Black
Now
Want
People
" 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
Run
Energy
Fair
" I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. "
Lewis Black
Birthday
Been
Guy
" Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis. "
Lewis Black
Politics
People
Daily
" If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. "
Lewis Black
Push
Believe
I Believe
" I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. "
Lewis Black
Joke
Odd
Say
" I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not. "
Lewis Black
Because
Friends
Like
" I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated. "
Lewis Black
Get
Some
Me
" 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
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Business
Know
Nice
" 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. "
Lewis Black
Economics
You
Morning