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Jon Stewart
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
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Jonathan Jon Stewart
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
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Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.
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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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Hopefully the only things off-limits are crummy jokes, but being a standup comedian, I know that's not always the case... You know it when you have to take a shower afterward.
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If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.
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It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.
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So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.
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That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
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We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.
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[CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?
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61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.
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Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
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Never name it after yourself. Maybe we'll throw a with in there. That seems to work. Like Late Show With David Letterman.
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The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.
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The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.
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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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All I'm saying is [John McCain] cannot look a soldier in the eye and say Questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour three months. You should be coming home to your family.
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I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.
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The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.
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My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.
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