The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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