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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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
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Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
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The killing of innocent people is a sin.
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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.
