"If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus."
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"For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see."
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"Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'"
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"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose."
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"My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is."
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"We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture."
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"What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
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"Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are."
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"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
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"There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer."
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"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"
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"Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.""
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"The things we fear the most have already happened to us."
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"Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
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"I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster."
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"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
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"It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
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"Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary."
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"Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death."
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"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
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