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I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.