Samantha Bee Quotes

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • World

• I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

  

  Dan Abrams
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  • Avoiding
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• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
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• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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  • Fashion
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• I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
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• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
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• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
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  • Community
  • Gay

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Win
  • Talent

• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
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  • You
  • Outsider

• I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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  • Human
  • Human being

• I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

  B. B. King
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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
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• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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  • Perspective

• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
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  • Myself

• All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

  

  Nancy Kress
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• You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Movie
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  • Amazing

• I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

  

  Jon Hamm
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• I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Career

• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Imagine
  • Judgment

• I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

  

  Samantha Bee
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