People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. - Robin Williams

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Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And that's a nice service that many of them provide.

Robin Williams

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

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You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

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The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

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I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

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When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

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Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.

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Emo Philips

Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And that's a nice service that many of them provide.

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Henry David Thoreau

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

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Spider Robinson

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

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