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Jon Stewart
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
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I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'
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I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.
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I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
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You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
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Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.
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I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
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So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.
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Does anyone know... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because... uh... you've all been in charge pretty much since... uh... what was that guys name... Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.
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Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.
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War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.
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You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror.
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I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.
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I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.
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I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
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Nathan Lane's Bus of Broadway Fun will be leaving shortly.
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Bush advisers have long been worried that a lagging economy could hamper the president's re-election chances. They hope that the Cabinet shake-up will provide a needed jolt. If that doesn't work, North Korea has to go.
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Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
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Get a sense of humor. If you don't, it'll be incredibly frustrating.
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I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.
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Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn't work.
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