Quote by Stephen Colbert
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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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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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I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? – Stephen Colbert

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Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. – Stephen King

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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