David Javerbaum Quotes
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.
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'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.
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I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'
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I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.
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I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
