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"There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity."
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"Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them."
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"Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises."
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"Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles."
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"Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself."
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"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
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"If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty."
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"Do what is right not what is convenient."
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"People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility."
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"Let your actions be the answer to criticism."
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"One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either."
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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
"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
"For my next trick I will make everyone understand me."
Will
"Hopefully standup will become special again."
Will
"It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did."
People
"I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now."
Living
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