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There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.
Lewis Black
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Lewis Black
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 30
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Lewis Niles Black
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It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!
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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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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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When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.
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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 have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me.
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When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.
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A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.
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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
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I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.
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Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!
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I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.
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North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.
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Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.
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If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .
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This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
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I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.
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This is the thing I've never understood: If someone is going to hell for being gay or being a Jew or a Muslim or having an abortion, then what are you worried about? You don't need to try and convert these people or try and save them. If you really believe in your religion, these people are already doomed, so stop worrying about them.
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Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'.
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