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The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

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If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

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When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

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Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

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All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

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Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

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There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

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The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

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What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.

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Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

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My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

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When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

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Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

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The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

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I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.

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The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

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Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

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The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

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I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

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I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

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I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

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I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

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The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

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Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

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I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

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There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

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I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

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My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

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Political audiences are not fun.

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Everybody's got cable.

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I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

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If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

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People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

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I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

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