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Stephen Colbert Quotes

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

Stephen Colbert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Character Wonderful Part

When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.

Good Hope Job Sleep Parents People

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Andrew Sullivan

Relationship Black Obama

My legacy is so, so important to me.

Me Legacy Important

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

People Succeed Think Better You

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Men Free Will Decide Ought Firmly

There aren't many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can't think of a really young band with a great front person.

Good Great Think Person Young Band

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

Rest Independence Stubborn Dare Will

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Writing Easy Page Everything Bleed

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

Douglas Rushkoff

Work Government Tea People Society

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

Life Poetry My Life Young Seen Were

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Control Free Feel Healthy Want More

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.

Beautiful Television Filmmaking Some

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