Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
AARON MCGRUDERFame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
AARON MCGRUDERI think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on ‘Seinfeld’.
AARON MCGRUDERBut I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.
AARON MCGRUDERI think you have to play the game on every level. If you need a friendly, charismatic, good-looking guy to be the mouthpiece, then so be it. And maybe Ralph Nader should just be behind the scenes telling that guy what to say.
AARON MCGRUDERI’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
AARON MCGRUDERIn USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.
AARON MCGRUDERAnd I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
AARON MCGRUDERI do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.
AARON MCGRUDERWhen the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
AARON MCGRUDERI don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.
AARON MCGRUDERWe have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.
AARON MCGRUDERWhen I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.
AARON MCGRUDERObviously, there’s a million things we’re allowed to say on late-night cable that you’re not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
AARON MCGRUDERI don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
AARON MCGRUDERI think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
AARON MCGRUDERIt’s difficult to overcome what you’re getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.
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