"If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations."
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"My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!"
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"I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!"
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"Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time..."
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"Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?"."
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"If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block.""
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"Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles."
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"Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift."
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"Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds"
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"Make your life spectacular, I know I did."
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"I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience."
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"Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it."
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"I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up."
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""It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop.""
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"2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match."
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"Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten."
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"I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it."
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"It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'."
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"I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now"
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"If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous."
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