Jerrod Carmichael Quotes
I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.
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I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.