Jason Chaffetz Quotes
When you're on a football scholarship, you get a stipend that's supposed to cover your rent and a few incidentals. It was $360 a month. This was the late 1980s, and the NCAA has an interesting rule where you're not allowed to supplement your income with a part-time job.
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I love cycling.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
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He's had to make some adjustments. I really feel like the adjustments have been made.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.
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When you're on a football scholarship, you get a stipend that's supposed to cover your rent and a few incidentals. It was $360 a month. This was the late 1980s, and the NCAA has an interesting rule where you're not allowed to supplement your income with a part-time job.
