Stephen Colbert Quotes

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

Stephen Colbert

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The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

Joe Andrew

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For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

Joe Mantegna

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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

John Cleese

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In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

Robert Hilburn

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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Tom Wolfe

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When I was about 21, everyone thought I was about 30.

Rosamund Pike

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It's hard to compare the faith of Gareth Southgate and Roy Hodgson and my lack of chances at Chelsea because it's such a big club.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Lou Reed

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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Judith Butler

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There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

Chelsea Clinton

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I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

Brian Greene

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