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Not Living In Fear Is A Great Gift, Because Certainly These Days We Do It So Much. And Do You Know What I Like About Comedy? You Can't Laugh And Be Afraid At The Same Time - Of Anything. If You're Laughing, I Defy You To Be Afraid.

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Not Living In Fear

Stephen Colbert

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Not Living In Fear Is A Great Gift, Because Certainly These Days We Do It So Much. And Do You Know What I Like About Comedy? You Can't Laugh And Be Afraid At The Same Time - Of Anything. If You're Laughing, I Defy You To Be Afraid.

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I Used To Make Up Stuff In My Bio All The Time, That I Used To Be A Professional Ice-skater And Stuff Like That. I Found It So Inspirational. Why Not Make Myself Cooler Than I Am?

I Love The Earth. If You Ask Me It's The Greatest Planet In The World.

You See, We're America The Beautiful, Not America 'well, At Least She Has A Great Personality'.

Agnostics Are Just Atheists Without Balls.

So What? A Lobbyist Cheated Indian Tribes Out Of $25 Million Then Laundered Their Money Through Phony Christian Charities Trying To Stop Other Indian Tribes From Getting Casinos [on Screen: 'thou Shalt Not Compete'] And Bribe Congressmen In The Process. Know What I Call That? I Call That Business As Usual In Washington. [on Screen: 'screwing Indians']

The Only Thing That Keeps Us Going Back To One Another Is That We're All Filled With Such Enormous Self-doubt. We Have Doubts About Our Ability To Be Alone, To Self-actualize.

I Don't Accept The Status Quo. I Do Accept Visa, Mastercard, Or American Express.

I Can Really Find Something Interesting About Almost Anyone I Talk To.

Something Interesting

...why Were You Happier When You Were A Kid? Because You Didn't Know Anything. The More You Know, The Sadder You Get.

But You Are Also The Biggest Threat Of All ...you Are A Gay Person I Like. Your Threat Is That You Make Being Gay Seem Non-threatening. It's Almost As If Your Happiness Does Not Take Mine Away.

Obamacare Needs The Premiums Of Healthier People To Cover The Costs Of Sicker People. It's A Devious Con That Can Only Be Described As Insurance.

I'm Not A Fan Of The Facts. Facts Change; My Opinion Never Does.

Nc Passed Law Against Global Warming Science, Therefore It's Not Happening. So I'm Ignoring Twitter's 140-character Limit, So It's Not Happ

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