The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.
Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.
Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you've struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.
Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.
