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“It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.”

Sarah Silverman

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When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

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My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

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People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at…

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In your twenties, I think you should have all of the sex that you're inclined to have, as long as you're safe about it.…

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I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

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Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me.…

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It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to.…

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If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

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Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews.

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“If you’ve ever heard that song by Beyoncé, “Single Ladies,” I am one of the people she’s singing about. I have to be, because…

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If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

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I say 'I'm sorry.' It usually disarms them.

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

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If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

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If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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