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It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

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Lewis Black
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 30
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Silver Spring
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Lewis Niles Black
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We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!
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We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.
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My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes
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sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers
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I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.
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We have fossils... We win!
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I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.
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I never write anything down. I write onstage.
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I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.
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I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.
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How our government works... it doesn't.
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Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...
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The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling The British are coming! The British are coming!
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Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
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I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of they don't know this, and they don't know that, and they're always denigrating.
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I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.
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Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again.
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.
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If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.
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