I think comedians partially use it for shock value. They know it makes people uncomfortable, so they exploit it. Richard Pryor probably said the word 100 times a day, but I think there's a degree of disregard for what anyone has to think that's associated with someone who just throws the word around the way some comedians do.
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Related I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... KEVIN HART I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal ... ALEX GREY The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do i... JEFF ROSS A lot of times, people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misu... TIG NOTARO Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because w... J. D. SOUTHER For us, what it has created is a buzz around town. I think it's a part of having 4,000 people here. ... BONNIE HENRICKSON When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, ... MICK FOLEY But I don't think I would word it like that. I think what we'll be looking for is someone who has go... DERRIL MARSHALL After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and coul... SCOTT AUKERMAN I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think th... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical." IVAN BOESKY They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they ... DAN PINK I do know a lot of people who use (Linux) for e-mail, word processing and Web access, but I couldn't... LANCE DAVIS Don't think it. Do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet. SCOTT LYNCH She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was former... OLIVIA SUDJIC I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want... KATE CLINTON I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutter... JAMES EARL JONES You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression. RUSSELL PETERS I wouldn't say people underestimate me, but I think some of the things I do are unexpected. I think ... JACOB MARTIN Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few ... ANDY WARHOL You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th... NICHOLAS SPARKS Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at w... ALEXIA FAST I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. SLICK RICK I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something... DAVID NATHAN And I know fuck isn’t a word that Mormons say, but I don’t say this word I only think it, so it ... THE HIPPIE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English." "The word for what?"... SCOTT WESTERFELD I know they do it for a reason, I'm finally seeing that. And I think for some of the kids, it works. COREY SUTTON People, when they get to that level, they always think they can do it better, ... I think I could do... DAVID GEFFEN I wonder why the word 'fat' is offensive to some.It's just a word. Just think of it as 'huggable'. B... MJ CHRISTINE His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic... LIONEL SHRIVER The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you desc... MARK HADDON I think a lot of times when people drunk dial about relationships, they're in a really strange place... ANDREA THOMPSON I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never... DANNY AIELLO That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I d... ERICK DAMPIER For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say e... BOB NEWHART I don't think enthusiastic is the true word. Toleration is probably the best word. I love her to dea... CHRIS CONNELLY Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I t... LILLY SINGH Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pi... THOM BROWNE Sometimes, you know, I just want to curl up and see if anyone notices I’m not there. But I kn... RAE EARL The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want... TREVOR NOAH The last few days it?s been Richard Seymour. That was a little different for me the first few times.... LOGAN MANKINS People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what?? (I'm stupi... DEYTH BANGER Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to... DICK CAVETT It was a good game for me, with the situation I was in. I think I did what they wanted me to do, so ... CODY GLENN I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the ... NICK CANNON Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along wi... SHAWN ASHMORE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... BRIAN SELZNICK The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and i... IMOGENE COCA Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, a... BASSEM YOUSSEF I don't think all the record has a radical, political, overthrow-the-government sort of vibe to it, ... WAYNE COYNE I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I n... DANNY AIELLO I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excru... EILEEN ATKINS The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. MARK TWAIN This is just the way it is, ... When I wanted to use, I went to the black people I knew who used. We... BRIAN CALDWELL That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's r... TREVOR JACKSON People think it doesn't matter what they do, that they're just 'another statistic' type of person. E... BRYCE TAYLOR It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humo... T. C. BOYLE I hope they keep the team somewhat intact, ... I think most of us deserve another year --another cha... JAMIE WALKER They are just simply the last people I would think of being involved in anything that would result i... DAN SCHWARTZ I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've... JOHN HURT I think the word is still out, but it looks like cohabitation offers some but not all the benefits f... KRISTI WILLIAMS I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are... KEVIN DILLON It makes me furious. That somebody would do a child that way. It just makes me furious. I think they... ROBERT GREEN Ava, People are the impossible, but most of us don’t see it, and that’s what limits us: the freq... J.A. GEORGE I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship... BRIAN MCKNIGHT Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I m... ROBERT GOOLRICK What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. 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CHRISTOPHER WALLACE We are close, ... but I think everybody around here is tired of hearing the word 'close.' We just ne... JAKE GROVE I think it brings them an awareness. To them, it's just on the news. But when they start hearing abo... PAT NIXON No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of... KAZI SHAMS It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. The... COLIN FIRTH Their weight loss - I really think it was timing, ... It has nothing to do with me. I would never, e... RACHEL ZOE Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is... DEYTH BANGER I don't think it serves anybody. I think what's better to do is talk about what people stand for, ta... MARK SHEPARD But I think it will probably awaken a lot of people in the fashion business to what they shouldn't b... KIMBERLY STEWART If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. WILLIAM GOLDMAN I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I... STEWART LEE
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much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it. CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it's very... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, mos... CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ... CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think His critical judgement is so exquisite It leaves us nothing to admire except... CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci... CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p... CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY