“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”
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“Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.”
“I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.”
“If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.”
“I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.”
“People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.”
“People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.”
“As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.”
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.”
“Jesus didn`t teach people to kill.”
“When you look at this, I think that there's been such a hard push on this. The reason they're called DREAMers is because that's the most sympathetic term that could be applied to among all of these DREAMers, there are some awfully bad people. And these dreamers go on to the age of 37 or 38 or maybe older.”
“George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn`t agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined with some Muslim leaders and said that, look, you know, we`re not going to tolerate any backlash. These people who attacked our country are criminals and they`re terrorists, and they might try to profess a religion, but they definitely violate the principles of that religion.”
“Muslims are absolutely integrating into the United States. You can go nearly any community and you find people opening up clinics that mostly non-Muslims go in to get services. They are feeding people who are hungry, American citizens, mostly people who are not Muslim. They`re running for office.”
“No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.”
“I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.”
“How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren`t going to back on.”
“The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.”
“It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.”
“The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.”
“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”