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Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.

The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

I said, 'I'm a rock star. I can't preach in nobody's church. Are you crazy?' Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

When I got a call about 'Celebrity X factor' I thought wow, what an opportunity. It felt like everything had been leaning towards that point.

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'

It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around.