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 MCGRUDERLate to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
More Aaron McGruder Quotes
-
-
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.
AARON MCGRUDER -
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.
AARON MCGRUDER -
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
AARON MCGRUDER -
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER -
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.
AARON MCGRUDER