Trevor Noah Quotes - Page 3

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• When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

  Trevor Noah

  Race, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!

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  People, Rude, Signatures

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

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  Want, Should, Notion

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.

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  Stupid, Intelligent, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

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  Mom, Shopping, Hunger

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

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  White, People, Black

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I always say to people, you know - someone goes, oh, well, what are you going to do about terrorist attacks and Muslims? We got to do something. And I go, don't let those in power trick you out of your freedoms by using your fear.

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  People, Tricks, Oh Well

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

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  Mother, World, Married

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

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  Ebola, People, Identity

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

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  Grandmother, House, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

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  Comedian, World, Comedy

  Source: variety.com

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• Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

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  Views, Groups, News

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.

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  Thinking, Giving, Perspective

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

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  America, Voting, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

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  Gay, Rights, Progressive

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

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  Different, News, Spheres

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a Chinese accent. I'm doing my friend's accent. And they said, yeah, you can't do that. And I said, OK, but can I do a Russian accent? And they said, yeah, yeah, of course, you can do that. I said, and a British accent? They said, yeah, go ahead. And I couldn't understand.

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  Chinese, They Said, Yeah

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.

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  Grandmother, Dwelling, Games

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

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  Care, Invasion, Language

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.

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  Self Esteem, Skins, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.

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  Thinking, Mind, Suffering

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over time that my mom was the hero. And I was, you know - I was just her punk-ass sidekick.

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  Mom, Hero, Book

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I could get an honest answer, I would ask Trump. "How much money would you want in order to leave the presidency?" Because I think he would have a number, strangely enough. Then we'd know how much to launch the Kickstarter for.

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  Thinking, Honest, Enough

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.

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  Phones, People, Scary

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.

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  All Time, Extremes

  Source: www.npr.org

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