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Stephen Colbert Quotes

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

Stephen Colbert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 13, 1964

Topics

Car Ride New Want Out Buy

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

Innovation Money Government People

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

World Greatest Artists Unfortunately

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

Live New York City Year Australia

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Hero People Perfect Want Heroism

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.

New York City Me Career New Seattle

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Learning Think Write First Rule

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

Trying I Can Make Many Films

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Life Experience My Life Memorable

Only when the oil and gas industry has taken full account of, and responsibility for, the impacts of exploring for and extracting fossil fuels can we engage in a serious and worthy evaluation of whether fracking can indeed provide a bridge to a sustainable energy future.

Future Responsibility Bridge Energy

I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.

Life Fun My Life Been Parties Few

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

Time Best Me Book Picture Choose

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

Alone Security Country Understand

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