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Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
Aaron McGruder
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Aaron McGruder
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 29
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in covenant with their population. Perhaps we need to look at the Scandinavian countries, or Canada, or something else, but whatever we have now, I think we just have to acknowledge, ain't workin.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.
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I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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We don't need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.
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In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don't really look for that, and I don't expect to find it in any city.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said no weapons in Iraq. Now they call that history.
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I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.
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You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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