Lewis Black Quotes - Page 11

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• You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go "who are you," and you can say: "I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?"

  Lewis Black

  Who I Am

  "The Carnegie Hall Performance". Comedy Album, 2006.

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• I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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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."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Bridges, Elude Us

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Winning

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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.

  Lewis Black

  Play, People, Bottles

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• You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Long, Hanukkah

  "Comedy Central Presents". TV Series, (1998– ).

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• The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

  Lewis Black

  Valentines Day, Holiday, Years

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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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!

  Lewis Black

  Ozone, Layers, Milk

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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.

  Lewis Black

  Stories, Pox, Too Much

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• One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

  Lewis Black

  Tomorrow, Rich, Stills

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• I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

  Lewis Black

  Insane, Mergers, Stuff

  Interview with Chris Mincher, tv.avclub.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

  Lewis Black

  Odd, Comic, Jokes

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Energy, Alternatives

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• I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

  Lewis Black

  Party, People, Want

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2011.

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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.

  Lewis Black

  Writing, Stuff, Odd

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Here's why I think there's something a little odd with George Bush. Because a lot of the times when he speaks, his words don't match his face. Something is askew. You can't talk about the war with a smile on your face. He does it constantly. If you're the President, you should go We're going to talk about the war, I must have a frowny face. The only time you can smile when you're talking about the war in Iraq is when you go, Well, two Iraqis walk into a bar, hahaha.

  Lewis Black

  War, Thinking, Talking

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, June 10, 2006.

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• The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

  Lewis Black

  Military, Kids, Golf

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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.

  Lewis Black

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

  Lewis Black

  Art, School, Thinking

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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