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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• The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

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  Christian, Cheating, Hate

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• I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.

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  Art, Kids, People

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• I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

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  Kind, Comic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

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  Country, Xenophobia, Native American

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!

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  Kissing, Dancing, Feel Good

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• But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

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  People, Attention, Want

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• I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

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  School, Illinois, Class

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• Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

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  White, Racism, Guy

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• Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!

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  Girlfriend, Wife, Everyday

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• I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

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  Thinking, People, Walmart

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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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