"I don't follow what everybody else does."

-- Donald Byrd

“The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.”
“I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.”

Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“Paint the entire ship? Id rather eat my cigar!”
“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”
“An honest money system is the only alternative.”
“Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.”
“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”
“The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.”

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