When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
AARON MCGRUDERFluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.
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I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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But 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.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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Obviously, 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.
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I think there’s a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you’re lucky, make a decent living here. That’s a big plus. That’s pretty positive. The weather is OK.
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We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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I really get a little bit confused by all this “angry angry angry” talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.
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Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
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I 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.
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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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You can’t accuse the creator of The Boondocks, … Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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I 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.
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In 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.
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I 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.
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It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on ‘Seinfeld’.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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