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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."
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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"
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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."
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"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."
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"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."
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"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
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"My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act."
Sister


"I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians."
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"I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable."
Love


"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."
Driving


"If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts."
Brother


"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."
Comedy


"I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it."
Friendship


"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."
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"People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people."
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