Colin Jost Quotes
Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.
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We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.
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Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.
