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I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.
George Meyer
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George Meyer
Age: 54
Producer
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Pennsylvania
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George A. Meyer
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I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.
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I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
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I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.
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To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.
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I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
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The most oblivious people are often the happiest.
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As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
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I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.
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When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.
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There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.
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I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
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Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
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You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
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I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
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I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
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I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
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I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.
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There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
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I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
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If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good
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