"Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage."

-- Steve Almond

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“The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.”
“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”
“You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.”

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“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”
“I have spent too much of my life opening doors for catsâ€”I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.”
“I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.”
“Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.”

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