"I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started."

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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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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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"I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started."

"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."

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

"I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work."

"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."

"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."

"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."