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"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
Programming
"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."
Children
"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me."
Life
"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."
People
"It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time."
Time
"Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do."
People
"It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out."
Integrity
"I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did."
College
"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
Artist
"The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day."
Day
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