Godfrey Quotes

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• Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!

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  Country, Punishment, Teach

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• I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.

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  Real, Thinking, Corny

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• I am not a model the camera just went off by itself

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  Cameras, Models

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• You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.

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  Real, Kids, Thinking

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• My black friends in America don't believe me. I said, 'Dude, I'm Nigerian American.' 'Word? We thought you were, like, regular black.' What the hell is 'regular black'? Crayola coming out with colors I don't know about?

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  Believe, Color, America

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• I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

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  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

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  Gay, Would Be, Prison

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• I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.

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  Airports, High Heels, Trying

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• The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

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  Sports, Running, Games

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• Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

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  Complaining, World, Want

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• You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

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  Moving, Creating, Keep Moving

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• I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.

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  Thinking, Differences, Use

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• I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

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  Smart, Thinking, Academia

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• But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

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  People, Interesting, Trying

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• I'm forever a part of pop culture.

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  Forever, Culture, Pop Culture

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• I want to be able to go into a room of aliens and be funny. I don't care who it is. I don't ever want to limit myself to a type of comedy because I don't want to be stuck. I want to be able to make anybody laugh and that's the key for me.

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  Keys, Laughing, Care

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• Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

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  Men, Comedian, Hey

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• I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.

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  Wise, Nice, Men

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• Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

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  Hecklers, Done, Want

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• If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

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  Giving, Mad, Comedian

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• I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.

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  Teacher, Intelligent, Views

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• You know what the bodega is? It's the little Latin store, and they try to act like it's a grocery store. It has two aisles. And the guy, he always tries to help me, 'You looking for the bread?' I was like, 'Dude, I can see it right here, alright.' He's like, 'Hey, hey, it's in aisle two.' That's all you got, what are you talking about?

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  Latin, Talking, Two

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• That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

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  Pride, Special, Being Special

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• I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around. You never really get rewarded in class for being funny. You're a disturbance. But the funny kid is often witty and clever and quick... they finally get a chance to express themselves when they get out of school.

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  Witty, Clever, Moving

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• I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

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  Materials, I Can

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