Jeff Ross Quotes
I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'm very self-critical.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
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In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.
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I always teach celebrities, all my life.
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
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The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.
