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W. Kamau Bell Quotes

Over the years, I'd hear Jon Stewart disavow being a journalist and say, 'No, I'm a comedian.' I'd be like, 'Stop pretending. You know you're a journalist.'

W. Kamau Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1973

Topics

You Stop Know Say Over Pretending

I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.

Jenna Dewan

Vision World Believe Think Body See

I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.

Michael Imperioli

Time Job Hat Long Long Time Never

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Michael Apted

You Early Television Sociology Know

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones

History Great People Not Perfect

Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning.

Robert Fulghum

Day Meaning Week Year Security Say

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Roger Moore

Love Travel You Never Without

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

Mike Bartlett

Moment Start Doing You Look Rather

One way to measure the size of a company, industry, or economy is to determine its output. But a better way is to determine its added value - namely, the difference between the value of its outputs, that is, the goods and services it produces, and the costs of its inputs, such as the raw materials and energy it consumes.

Michael Spence

Value Energy Better Measure Way

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a great-grandmother. I miss that part of her.

Judith Viorst

Mother Crazy Grandchildren She Her

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

Jason Mitchell

Yourself World You Worst Something

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

Joseph Haydn

Great Care Never Quick Writer

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

Jon Krakauer

Space People Moon Impact Outer Space