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Good comedians are great philosophers.

Reggie Watts

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Reggie Watts
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 23
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I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.
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It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.
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Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.
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If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.
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A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.
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I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.
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I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.
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I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.
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I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
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In the past, I was definitely more apt to storing pain away and not worrying about it. But as I get older, it's really about figuring out how to process it, how to feel it, and then also how to use it in my art.
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Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.
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I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.
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Everyone speaks stupid.
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In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything.
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Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.
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I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.
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I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.
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One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.
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