"My brother Billy was the joke teller. My……" — Stephen Colbert
"My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs."
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321 Quotes by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert has 321 quotes on this site.
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Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!
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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today?…
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Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you…
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Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and…
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Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.
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If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the…
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not…
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First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in'…
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If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.
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I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it…
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Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
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