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You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

~Stephen Colbert

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If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

~Stephen Colbert

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The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

~Stephen Colbert

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I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.

~Stephen Colbert

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I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

~Stephen Colbert

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You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

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

~Stephen Colbert

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I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

~Stephen Colbert

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My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

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The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

~Stephen Colbert

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: May 13th, 1964

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