“They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.”
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“I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.”
“The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.”
“Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.”
“When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.”
“There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.”
“I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.”
“I'm always amazed that anyone is paying attention to anything that I do, you know what I mean? I feel like I'm constantly having conversations with people where they're saying, "I didn't know that you could be serious," and then other people are saying, "Oh, I didn't know that you could do comedy." And so I don't know if it really helped too much with this. I like to think that it does.”
“There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.”
“People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
“Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.”
“I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.”
“Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.”
“Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."”
“[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.”
“[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.”
“I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.”
“It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.”
“It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.”
“[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.”