W. Kamau Bell Quotes

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington D.C. If I say 'comedian,' people automatically assume that you're a comedian who talks about how his wife won't listen to him and that dummy down at the mechanic who wouldn't fix his car.

W. Kamau Bell

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The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

Meghan McCain

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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ann Beattie

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People think hip-hop is evil, but it's sometimes the people making hip-hop that are evil. The genre isn't wicked, but the people in it are.

Andy Mineo

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You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

Jeff Bewkes

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A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

John Roberts

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You have to make the most responsible decisions you can with the resources you have.

John Perez

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Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

Sonny Rollins

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In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Shimon Peres

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There wasn't much money in this sport when I started, but I didn't get into it because of money. I loved to fight, and I loved MMA.

Robbie Lawler

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The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

Missy Peregrym

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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

Jose Mujica

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I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

Jonathan Carroll

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