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“No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.”

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Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and…

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I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.

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I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been…

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Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect…

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I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know…

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The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and can have…

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Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

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On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a…

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I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

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I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is…

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If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me…

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I went to Bard College, which was a really interesting synthesis of a hippie school and a serious academic institution. It was really the…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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