Alexandre Kojeve Quotes
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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The show has become my therapy.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
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I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.
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There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
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Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.
