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I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

Reggie Watts

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Reggie Watts
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 23
Actor
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Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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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 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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I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.
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Good comedians are great philosophers.
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You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.
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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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It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.
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I always composed music as a little kid.
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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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A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.
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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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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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We're all just memories of our future selves.
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When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.
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I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.
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Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
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When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
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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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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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