Quote by Stephen Colbert
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she go

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. – Stephen Colbert

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No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. – Stephen Colbert

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mom
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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, Keep your facts, Im going with the truth. – Stephen Colbert

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Truth
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I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didnt like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. – Stephen Colbert

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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity. – William Hurt

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Theres so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And theres no reason for me to do anything short of that, because Im 24, I dont have a family, I dont need to make tons of money, and Im not dying to get famous. – Tobey Maguire

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The famous saying God is love, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the otherness and terror of God. – Charles Williams

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famous

I dont have famous neighbours and if I did, Id avoid them. I dont live the jet-set. – Vanessa Paradis

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famous

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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. – Natalie Goldberg

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Truth

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. – H. G. Wells

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Time

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

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Learning

Respect is one of lifes greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you dont have that? – Marilyn Monroe

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Life