Your words and thoughts have physical power.
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
I'm sure that having acted like an asshole for a great deal of my life, then having played assholes for a good part of my life, created a perception that I'm an asshole.
You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes. " That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being a "joke thief," I just tell them to come to one of my shows.
What I've realized in the last year, 80% of my act has already happened to me, and it's not until you retell the story at a party or to a friend or it comes up on the podcast that you, I don't know why I'm not doing that onstage!
You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go up and talk about how Christopher Walken wanted to know where my dog's tail went. That really happened to me.
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.
If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.