Daily Show Quotes

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  Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

  Jon Stewart

  Death, Hope, Atheist

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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  If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

  Jon Stewart

  Motivational, Sticks, Hobbies

  "The Daily Show", January 22, 2009.

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• Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Fall, Age

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

  Tom Brokaw

  Truth, Eight, Political

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• I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

  John Mayall

  Counter Culture, Laughing, News

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• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

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• I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

  Seth Rollins

  Host, Shows

  "Watch Jon Stewart Kick a Wrestler in the Nuts on Monday Night Raw" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

  Rob Corddry

  Feelings, Comedy, Should

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• I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

  David Javerbaum

  Writing, Years, Topics

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

  Brian Williams

  Laurels, Shows

  "Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News". www.npr.org. January 10, 2010.

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• Because I went from the Daily Show where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show to Bruce Almighty where I played a news guy to Anchorman where I played a news guy, now I'm...yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.

  Steve Carell

  Anchorman, Fake, Guy

  "GET SMART On Set Interview – Steve Carell". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 29, 2008.

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• I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

  Sarah Vowell

  People, Radio, Watches

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 13, 2008

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• Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

  Rob Corddry

  Watches, Comedy, Shows

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• There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Littles, Requirements

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 23, 2005.

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• The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

  Rob Corddry

  Country, Travel, Talking

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• Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

  John Oliver

  Role Playing, Roles, Welcome

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• Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Jobs, Way, Firsts

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

  John Oliver

  Mistake, Thinking, Anchors

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

  Lizz Winstead

  Jobs, Air, Creative Space

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When I first came to the U.S. - because I do accents and I've traveled the world. I have friends of almost every single ethnicity, and I would mimic them. And when I came to the U.S., I remember one day we're at "The Daily Show." And I mimicked my Chinese friend. And the guys at the show were like, oh, hey, don't ever do that again. That's really racist.

  Trevor Noah

  Ethnicity, Guy, Chinese

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think it does because if you think of where "The Daily Show" was when I inherited it from Jon Stewart, I was in a space where, essentially, everything seemed like it was on track, you know, in terms of - from a progressive point of view, you know, you're looking at Republicans who, yes, were in control of many facets of government.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Government, Views

  "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 don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Watches, Television, Yeah

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

  Aasif Mandvi

  School, Doors, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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