"I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded."

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Source : "Punk Puppet Apocalypse". Interview with Lina Lecaro, www.laweekly.com. February 28, 2006.

John Roecker

#Thinking Quotes #Envelopes Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
“People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.”

Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.”
“If I was Simon Cowell for a day, Iâ€™d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Thenâ€¦pour ketchup on myself!”
“You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.”
“Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.”
“I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.”

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