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Well I Don't Know What The City Of Hollywood Knows About Foreign Policy, But Do I Know That A Lot Of People Do Learn And Educate Themselves About Policy And I Don't Have To Be A Policy Expert To Know That This Will Be A Disaster.

-Janeane Garofalo

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Janeane Garofalo

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Well I Don't Know What The City Of Hollywood Knows About Foreign Policy, But Do I Know That A Lot Of People Do Learn And Educate Themselves About Policy And I Don't Have To Be A Policy Expert To Know That This Will Be A Disaster.

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Leaving Your Ears Open To The Suggestions Of Others Only Closes The Mind's Eye, Thereby Creating A Type Of Spiritual Glaucoma.

I Can Do Most Anything And Not Have A Problem With It. The Only Time I Have Negative Attention Is When I Run Naked Through The Streets Brandishing A Handgun.

The Right, Like Pat Buchanan And Rush Limbauggh, Use Women And The Black Man And The Hispanic Immigrant And The Gay Man As A Scapgoat For Society's Ills. They Pretend It's About Traditional Family Values, But That's A Bullshit Phrase That Means Nothing To Me. They Like To Use Us All. They Use Pro-life As A Way To Hate Women And Slam Women, Dressed Up In The Nobility Of Saving Unborn Fetuses. I Think It's Just Misogyny.

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Every Year My Family Would Pile Into The Car For Our Vacation And Drive 80 Trillion Miles Just To Prove We Couldn't Get Along In Any Setting.

If You Don't Recognize The Racist Element In The Teabag Movement, You're Either Dishonest, Or You've Never Seen The Teabag Movement, Or Heard Of It, Or Been Acquainted With It In Any Way.

I Guess Intractable Right-wing Ideologues Are My Mortal Enemy.

I Don't Know That I Would Need To Be Famous As A Middle East Policy Expert To See That Unilateral Imperialism Is Bad Policy.

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Last Night, I Went To A Birthday Party, And This Girl Brought A Cake And A Cheesecake. And The Other Girls That Lived In The Apartment, I Swear To God, All Night Long: 'you're Taking That Cake With You When You Go. That Cake's Not Staying In This House.' Like It's This Evil, Hope Diamond, Nuclear, Horrifying Cursed Thing.

Silence Does Not Equal Patriotism. Obedience Is Not The American Way.

I Did Not Support Operation Desert Fox.

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We're Our Own Worst Enemies A Lot Of The Time, But I Still Blame Men.

The Teabagger Thing And The Right-wing Thing - They Pick Easy Targets, And A Female In The Entertainment Industry Is Low-hanging Fruit. It's Very Easy To Mock And Marginalize People In General Who Are In The Entertainment Industry, For Some Reason. But Then Definitely There's The Double Standard And The Misogyny That Goes Through It As Well.

Double Standard

You Just Did A Whole Read-through. The Lie That Brought Us Into War Was That Iraq Was A Threat To Us. Well, Now It Is A Threat. Now It Is A Terrorist Hotbed. The Fiction Is Now Reality. And Now We Have To Deal With It. It Was An Attempt At A Corporate Takeover. This Was About Oil. It Wasn't About Human Rights. It's Not About Human Rights.

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There Is No Blacklist. In The First Place, In The Entertainment Business, Money Talks, Bullshit Walks. So Susan Sarandon And Tim Robbins Won't Be Blacklisted Because They Are Bankable Stars. In The Second Place, If You Are A Woman, The Only Things You're Going To Be Blacklisted For In Hollywood Are Body Fat And Aging.

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When Communist U.s.s.r. Was A Superpower, The World Was Better Off. The Right-wing Media Is Trying To Marginalize The Peace Movement.

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I Was Just Utterly Oblivious To How Difficult It Was, And How Difficult It Was Going To Be, And Then Also In The Mid-eighties Through The Mid-nineties There Was A Boom Of Sorts. So There Were Plenty Of Stages. If I Had Started Now, There Would Be Very Few Places To Get Better And Better.

We Got Married Drunk In Vegas . . . We Dated For A Year, And We Got Married At A Drive-through Chapel In A Cab. [we Thought] You Have To Go Down To The Courthouse And Sign Papers And Stuff, So Who Knew? We Were Married, And Apparently Now That [rob] Is Getting Married For Real, His Lawyer Dug Up Something.

If You Don't Do Any Self-examinations Or See A Doctor Ever, You'll Live Forever. That's How You Do It. The Diagnosis Is What Gets You. You Just Have A Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy With Any And All Bodily Functions.

You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By How Excited They Are To Do The Macarena.

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This World Is Bullshit. And Just Because I Appear In Music Video Wherein I Am In My Underwear, And Make Young Women Feel Not Good Enough So That They Become Anorxeic; And Okay, Maybe Because Of That I Became Popular More Quickly Than Other Singers Who Are, I Don't Know, Maybe More Talented Or Better Songwriters. That Doesn't Matter Because, And... Um... My Boyfriend Is A Magician, And He Can Pull A Quarter Out Of Your Ear And Say Things Like 'we Have Not Met Before Have We?' Go With Yourself.

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Listening To Your Tape, I Was Reminded Of This Poem. It Has The Central Question: Is It Harder To Count On Someone Or To Know That You're Being The One Counted Upon? Anyway, There's This Part That Goes: If Equal Affection Cannot Be, Then Let The More Loving One Be Me. Have You Ever Read That One? It's One Of My Favorites.

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Until As Women We All Say, No! We Are Not Going To Starve Ourselves, Nothing Is Going To Change. We're Our Own Worse Enemies Sometimes But I Still Blame Men.

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There's Nothing Wrong With The Word Conspiracy. It Just Means 'to Breathe Together.'

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I Was Too Ignorant To Realize, "oh, This Will Be Difficult."

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A War Is Going To Destroy Our Economy Even Further. It's Going To Be A Threefold Humanitarian Disaster.

Taking Into Account The Public's Regrettable Lack Of Taste, It Is Incumbent Upon You Not To Fit In.

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I Think We All Remember Where We Were When Rush Hour Hit The Water. That Was An Important Day.

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Pedestrian's Rights - Because We Live In California, I've Got To Address This Issue. I Don't Know Where On The Fence I Am About That. I Suppose If I'm Walking, I'm All For It, But If I'm Driving, That's A Whole Other Can Of Worms.

I Guess I Just Prefer To See The Dark Side Of Things. The Glass Is Always Half-empty. And Cracked. And I Just Cut My Lip On It. And Chipped A Tooth.

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How Long Do We Have To Deal With Conservative Failure? How Long? Thirty Years Is Not Enough? So I Would Say Enough With That, And I Would Say Check Out The Center For American Progress, And The Writings By Patrick Garofalo, Economic Guru. That's What I Would Say.

I'm A Walker. I Enjoy Walking, Which I Think Psychologically Expresses My Feelings Of Wanting Liberation Without Exerting Myself Too Much.

When I Talk About People Wrapping Themselves In The Flag And Hiding Behind Jesus - That's An Anti-intellectual Thing To Do In The Political Process, Because Legally, Allegedly We Have A Separation Between Church And State. That's A Legal Precedent That's Never Observed. When People Are Trying To Do Something That's Not In Your Best Interest, They Will Wrap It In The Flag And Hide Behind Jesus, Which Is A Corrupt Thing To Do.

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I Despise In Others My Own Characteristics.

Characteristics

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When Pat Buchanan Came Out Against The Beijing Women's Conference And There Were Women Standing Next To Him, Smiling And Laughing When He Was Making Fun Of It, I Was So Embarrassed. I Don't Mind When The More Liberal Or Moderate Republican Women Talk About Smaller Government Or Money Issues And Things Of That Nature. But When I See A Conservative Republican Woman In Line With The Christian Right Or Coming Out Against Abortion And Day-care Issues And For Taking Away Womens' Aid, I See A Self-hating, Unenlightened Woman, Like A Self-hating Jew. That Blows My Mind. I Don't Get It At All.

You Just Need An Opportunity And Then You Yourself Have To Do A Good Job, And Then You Hope That People Go, 'oh Yeah, I Forgot About Her.'

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First Of All, "redneck" Is A State Of Mind, Not A Person. So The "racist Redneck" Thing Is A State Of Mind, Not A Geographical Location. So I Don't Mean To Imply That It's Just Southerners. And If You Don't Recognize The Racist Underpinnings And The Emotional Reactive Response You're Getting From These Teabaggers Because We Have A Black President, Then You Are Either Being Dishonest, Or You've Never Seen The Teabaggers.

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Sometimes I Am Very Pleased With Lifestyle And Sometimes I Feel Utterly Worthless Because I Have So Few Interests.

You Young People With Your Twittering And Your Creating Of Content. Or What Is It - Queefing? I Don't Know What You Young People Are Calling It.

There's Been Times When I Have Actually Had Sex Indoors. And Then You Kind Of Sober Up A Little When It's Over. I Become Like A Bartender At 2 Am. Ok, People, Let's Move It Out! Yeah, You Don't Have To Go Home But You Can't Stay Here.

I Don't Know Who You're Referring To Exactly Who Said, 'what Has Iraq Done To Us?'

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Let's Be Very Honest About What This Is About. It's Not About Bashing Democrats, It's Not About Taxes, They Have No Idea What The Boston Tea Party Was About, They Don't Know Their History At All. This Is About Hating A Black Man In The White House. This Is Racism Straight Up.

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No No No! Don't Clap! No No No, You Make Me Seem Like I'm Like A Prophet Or Something And I'm So Not!

Boy, Does That Give You Street Cred For Years After, If You Tell People You Were On 'the Larry Sanders Show!'

Many People Feel That Mass Acceptance And Smooth Socialization Are Desirable Life Paths For A Young Adult… Many People Are Often Wrong… Don’t Bother Being Nice. Being Popular And Well Liked Is Not In Your Best Interest. Let Me Be More Clear; If You Behave In A Manner Pleasing To Most, Then You Are Probably Doing Something Wrong. The Masses Have Never Been Arbiters Of The Sublime, And They Often Fail To Recognize The Truly Great Individual. Taking Into Account The Public’s Regrettable Lack Of Taste, It Is Incumbent Upon You Not To Fit In.

When I See Guys In Bars Wearing The Real Fitted Kind Of Calvin Klein V-neck T-shirts I Just Want To Go Up To Them And Be Like, 'oh, Do You Work Out? Your Tricep Looks So Great - Thank You.'

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There Is No Way Any Rational, Reasonable Person Can Say That The Bush Administration Has Been Good For America.

I Should Also Say, In General, I Just Drank A Lot. I Shouldn't Characterize It As "to Get The Courage To Perform." It Was Just An In-general Nighttime Activity. It Definitely Made It Easier When I Started Doing Stand-up. It Was Just Much Simpler To Do A Couple Of Shots. It Made My Nerves Go Away, For The Most Part. It Just Was Something I Sort Of Relied On For About The First Four Years.

I'm Not Religious Anymore, But I Think It's Like Papal Infallibility, Which Is A Ridiculous Man-made Tenet, Like What I Believe Most Religious Tenets To Be, Are Man-made After The Fact.

The World Would Be Better Off With Multiple Superpowers. When Communist Ussr Was A Superpower, The World Was Better Off.

I Don't Even Know Why Somebody's Twittering As Me. I Don't Understand It, And I Wish That It Would Stop. But There's Nothing That Can Be Done. It's So Terrible.

I Truly Believe A Woman's Weight Is A Political Issue, And If One Young Woman Out There Can See Me And Not Feel Crummy About Herself, That's A Good Thing.

The Media Is Supposed To Be Custodians Of The Facts And Watchdogs Of Government. They Have, For The Most Part, Neglected To Be Either Of Those Things.

I Don't Hate Myself, As A General Rule. I'd Say The Best Way To Describe It Is That I Have Moments Of Self-loathing At Fairly Regular Intervals.

How Is It That This Debate Has Been Twisted On Its Head, That Somehow Those That Advocate Peace And Diplomacy Are Anti-american?

Sometimes There's A Lot Of Tangents Because I Forget What I'm Going To Say So Much. Sometimes There's Very Little Tangents And Stuff For Some Reason, And Then Some Nights It's All Tangents And I Can't Find My Way, And Then Sometimes I Wind Up Just Talking About Something Completely Extemporaneously And Then Never Mention It Again Ever. It's Just Completely Different.

I Feel Like The American People Are Being Lied To And Manipulated. President Bush Is Trying To Force 9/11 And Saddam Together.

It Is Not Crazy To Think That Powerful People Do Some Pretty Horrible Things. And Maybe They Get Out Of Hand. Maybe It Just Gets Away From Them. It Snowballs.

He [god] Just Seems So Man-made To Me. There Are So Many Theories, And Not Everyone Can Be Right. It's Human Nature To Need A Religious Crutch, And I Don't Begrudge Anyone That. I Just Don't Need One.

Sex Is The Quickest Way To Ruin A Friendship.

Evil Is In The Face Of Every Frat Guy That Ever Raised A Beer Cup And Went "whoooooo!"

Yes, I Think Lots Of People Are Eager To Obtain Weapons Of Mass Destruction. But There's No Evidence That He Has Weapons Of Mass Destruction. There's Been No Evidence Of Him Testing Nuclear Weapons. We Have People That Are In Our Face With Nuclear Weapons. We've Got Iran And North Korea. We've Got A Problem With Pakistan. You Know, I Don't Know What To Say About That. There's A Whole Lot Of People That Are Going Nuclear. And I Think That Saddam Hussein Is Actually, With The Evidence, The Least Able To Use Nuclear Weapons And The Least Obvious Offender In That Area At This Moment.

Mass Destruction

Tina Fey Is Part Of A Generation Of Women Who Have Changed The Face Of Comedy At 'second City,' 'snl,' In Sitcoms And In Film.

The Inked Fingers And The Position Of Them, Which Is Gonna Be A 'daily Show' Photo Already, Of Them Signaling In This [nazi Salute] Manner, As If They Have Solidarity With The Iraqis Who Braved Physical Threats Against Their Lives To Vote As If Somehow These Inked-fingered Republicans Have Something To Do With That.

The Teabaggers - Do I Know Every Single One Of Them? No. Can I See That There's A Lot Of Racist Bullshit Going On? Absolutely. Would It Have Been Welcome To See More Of These "anti-government" Types Around After The Stolen Election? It Would Have Been Good To See It. I Wouldn't Have Liked To See Them With Their Immigrant-bashing And Their Stupid Signs.

All Roads Lead To My Dogs, Don't They?

The Reason A Person Is A Republican Is Because Something Is Wrong With Them. Again, That's Science - That's Neuroscience. You Cannot Be Well Adjusted, Open-minded, Pluralistic, Enlightened And Be A Republican.

But Let Me Ask You This Though, First And Foremost: Who's Your Favorite Spice Girl? Mine Is Sporty Spice And I'll Tell You Why. You Know What? She Might Not Be As Aesthetically Pleasant As The Rest But She'll Do A Backflip And Steal Your Heart.

... Being A Feminist Means That You Believe In Civil Rights And Social Justice.

Because We Don't Have A Fairness Doctrine, And Because We Have Further Media Consolidation, And Because We Have A Craptastic Corporate Media, We Don't Have News! We Don't Have An Informed Populous And We Don't Have A Democracy... Everyone In The World Knows That America, (in Its Current State, Because Of Right-wingers) That The Right Wing Arm Of This Country (that Speaks For This Country Unfortunately) Has No Credibility When It Comes To Human Rights Or Independent Media.

I Feel Bad That People Think That "feminism" Is A Dirty Word. I Don't Understand That At All, I'm Proud To Be Labeled A Feminist. I Consider Myself A Person Who Has Throughout My Entire Life Stood Up For Myself. It's Never Been My Ambition To Be Someone Who Takes A Backseat To Anything. I'm Not A Male Basher At All. I Divide People Into Assholes And Non-assholes, And That's Genderless. I Encounter Sexism Everyday.

Unfortunately, I Am Not One Of Those Comics Where It's Guaranteed That I Hit It Out Of The Park Every Time. You Know, I Am Not Completely Reliable. It's Always Different, And It's A Complete Crapshoot Whether I'm Going To Do Well.

Like I Said, I'm Just Grateful When Anyone Offers Me A Job. It's Like, "okay. I'll Do It." Fbi Agent Is One, Too, When You Get Older. When You're Kind Of An Older Lady Hard-ass, Fbi Tends To Happen. It's Just Because I'd Like To Work Rather Than Not Work, So I'm Just Happy If Somebody Wants Me To Do Anything.

I Was Thrilled To Work Opposite Carl Reiner And Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner Was Very Chatty And Delightful, But I Learned That If You Want Robert De Niro To Like You, Don't Speak At All, And He'll Be Friendly To You.

I'm Almost 46. You Become No Longer Even Regarded In A Sexual Way. As You Get Older You're Just Taken Out Of That Realm. So It's Not Anything That Particularly Confronts Me Very Much At All.

To A Right-winger, Unions Are Awful. Why Do Right-wingers Hate Unions? Because Collective Bargaining Is The Power That A Worker Has Against The Corporation. Right-wingers Hate That.

Well I Don't Know What The City Of Hollywood Knows About Foreign Policy, But Do I Know That A Lot Of People Do Learn And Educate Themselves About Policy And I Don't Have To Be A Policy Expert To Know That This Will Be A Disaster.

I Think People Are Very Cynical With Actors Trying To Tell Them What To Believe In, Or Lobbying For Any Kind Of Changing Of Government Policy. Even I Get Cynical About It. Like, Why Is Sharon Stone Telling Me This? And There's Just Something Annoying About Having Charlie Sheen Tell Me, "it's Your Responsibility To Vote," In An Admonishing Way On Mtv.

I Actually Was Class Clown, But I Don't Know How That Happened Because I've Never Been Considered An Outwardly Funny Person-as The People In This Room Will Attest.

Here's What The Right-wing Has In, There's No Shortage Of The Natural Resources Of Ignorance, Apathy, Hate, Fear. As Long As Those Things Are In The Collective Conscious And Unconscious, The Republicans Will Have Some Votes.

Anthony Weiner Deserves To Be Supported And Hopefully He Will Be Mayor Of New York One Day. I'm Serious. He Is A Democrat [who] Actually Fights For The Things Liberals And Progressive And Rational People Care About. I Don't Know Why He's Being Thrown Under The Bus. He Hasn't Done Any - He Hasn't Broke Any Laws.

Blood May Be Thicker Than Water, But It Is Still Sticky, Unpleasant And Generally Nauseating.

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