“I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don't dare put on airs.”
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“I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.”
“I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.”
“People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.”
“When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"”
“We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.”
“I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.”
“[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.”
“I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.”
“The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.”
“As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.”
“When you have creative people, you have to let them do their thing. You have to resist the urge to be too efficient, you have to resist the urge to work to a certain budget and schedule - other than the fact that things have to end. It's harder work to produce this way but my philosophy is that you have to let it be creatively chaotic and let it find its place. When creative people are on to something, you know it and you have to allow it to happen. You can't set a schedule for that.”
“It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong. You should not talk about Indian people," and the Indian people are over in the audience like, "I thought that joke was hilarious." That is so weird. Then why are you getting mad? You're burning unnecessary calories. You're getting made for the sake of getting mad. I don't understand it.”
“I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.”
“I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.”
“Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.”
“For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.”
“I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it.”
“There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat.”
“It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.”