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The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.

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HomeTimeMeLaughComedyDoing

The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

Jenna Wortham

CulturePoliticsAmericanSeeChina

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

Andrew Cohen

IgnoranceActionEnoughWayStrive

With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.

Amy Klobuchar

MedicineAmericanGoingWasteCosts

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

MindBelieveYouAchieve

I love to spend money.

Roberto Cavalli

LoveMoneyI LoveSpend

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Rudyard Kipling

MotherSoulMeBodyKnowPrayers

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

Mike D

AlwaysThingsCarefulEvenGuess

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleCriticismDownSayWayJust

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Jean Anouilh

TalentWriteOpenMustLikeWhile

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen

LanguageThroughCannotUnderstood

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

Jon Taffer

FailureTimeBelievePersonFault

My career is just kind of crazy.

David Spade

CrazyCareerKindJustJust Kind

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