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" You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on. "

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" There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing. "

" I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too. "

" I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. "

" I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words. "

" I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do. "

" As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race. "

" When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist. "

" You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way. "

" My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born. "

" We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy. "

" Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100. "

" I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues. "

" I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.' "

" I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist. "

" I'm understated in my approach. "

" You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game. "

" It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues. "

" When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time. "

" The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane. "

" Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately. "

" I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you. "

" The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society. "

" Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show. "

" The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. "

" Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying. "

" I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic. "

" My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California. "

" I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person. "

" I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well. "

" I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.'' "