W. Kamau Bell Quotes
If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
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Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
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There's a degree of deception in silence.
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
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Poverty affects people of all races.
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If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
