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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.