Quotes by Adam Conover - Page 2

I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
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Drives
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I went to Bard College, which was a really interesting synthesis of a hippie school and a serious academic institution. It was really the perfect spot for me.
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Academic
Synthesis
Spot
Institution
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I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.
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Transportation
Bad Way
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Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why the TSA screens everything and takes your stuff away.
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Screens
Tsa
People Safe Feel
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The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and can have something to say that is serious.
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Daily Show
Turning
Turning Point
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I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula. I've visited Michigan every couple of years since I was a kid.
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Familiar
Michigan
Lower
Peninsula
Visited
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You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.
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Car
Buying
Climate Change
Efficient
Policy
Throwing
Individually
National Policy
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The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.
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Brutal
Corporations
Determined
Foods
Grocery
Grocery Store
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We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.
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Intimate
Real Story
Almost Anything
Good Reason
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At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
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Human Knowledge
Proven
Perfectly
Sum
Sum Total
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No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.
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Comedian
Emperor
Shocked
Onstage
Roy
Tiger
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The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.
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Making Decisions
Mass
Broader
Direction Country People
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Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.
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Millennials
Phones
Time Always Know
Dads
Dogs
Moms
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You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.
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Criticize
Actually
Try
Day
End Of The Day
Escape
Slowly
Learn
Move
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I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.
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Little Bit
World People Live
Distorted
World Live People
Informational
Let Go
Reach
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Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.
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California
Los Angeles
Rich
States
Angeles
Teachers
Belongs
Demanding
Los
Spent
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You have to accept that other people are not going to live their lives like you, and you have to find a way to achieve your goals while they are still existing and living their lives according to their choices.
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Your Goals People
According
Existing
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I sort of expose the truth about common misconceptions, or you know, investigate why we do certain things culturally, why we have certain traditions, and ask the question, 'is this really the best way we can be doing things?'
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Best Way
Certain Things
Expose
Investigate
Misconceptions
Traditions
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If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.
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Caviar
Infinity
Members
Fellow
Me Back More
Happily
Nickel
Page
Pools
Union
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I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.
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Energy
Over It
Relax
Quite
Run
Period
Helps
Holding
Long Period
Plane
Quite A Lot
Suppressed
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All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.
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Life Good Always
Life Good My Life
All My Life
Reaction
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I have a vested interest in increasing the amount of diversity in my own business. That's something that I care about. So mentoring people who are trying to break into the business who could use a hand, that's the type of person I look for.
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Mentoring
Increasing
Vested
Vested Interest
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The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them.
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Authority
Edgy
Invitations
Journalistic
Posing
Satirical
Borrow
Classes
Comedians
Cultural
Eager
Hopes
Photos
Rub
Sending
Shine
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On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'
Adam Conover / Comedian
Adam
Comedy
Costumes
Fingers
Naughty
Ruins
Silly
Sketch Comedy
Stuff
Oh
Characters
Possible
Joke
Immediately
Sam
Saying
Sketch
Uncle
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What people say about millennials is the same thing they've said about every generation: Younger people are obsessed with technology, and selfish, and they're lazy, and they live with their parents... Guess what? That's 'cause they're young people!
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Lazy
Millennials
Selfish
Younger People
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I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.
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Long Island
Public School
Island
River
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Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.
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Comedian
Comedy
Comic
Contribution
Growing Up
Influential
Tangible
Society World Me
Jon
Effect
Jon Stewart
Needle
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Many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday for the most part than a Christian holiday. Obviously, many, many people celebrate it as a Christian holiday. But then there's even more people or there's additional people who celebrate it as a secular holiday as well.
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Christian
Holiday
People
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I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.
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Bits
Bugs
Furniture
Lift
Oh Yeah
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I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people.
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Intense
Reasonable
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I get messages from 21-year old white dudes who have just gotten out of an expensive college and say 'Hey can I pick your brain?' and I have nothing to say to them because A. They already have all the advantages and B. My advice would be the same as anyone else: Go do open mics.
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Expensive
Messages
Advantages
Anyone Else
Dudes
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I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.
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Flaw
Incorrectly
Rid
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Narcissism is a fact of life - it's a natural part of growing older, right? It's a part of your development. So being angry about the younger generation being 'narcissistic,' that's like saying 'Oh, this young generation only wants to poop in their diaper! They don't want to use the bathroom!'
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Bathroom
Narcissism
Younger Generation
Diaper
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I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I'm traveling, all bets are off, but I don't cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I'll have some meat. But I know, personally, that's the best I'm ever going to do in my life.
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Eggs
Meals
Milk
Vegan
Life Best Day
Bets
Cook
Personally
Rarely
Rule
Thumb
Traveling
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It's only when you get towards the top that people start throwing you down a rope. It's like a law of nature, and it makes me think a lot about what my responsibility is to folks who are further down the hole where I was - how I can offer them help and how I can try to help change the structure of American society.
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American Society
Folks
Rope
Structure
Throwing
Further
Towards
Hole
Offer
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Into the Breach' is a wonderful strategy game where you play that you are trying to stop an alien invasion. But of course, 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' and 'Super Mario Odyssey' are just two of the most superlative games ever made, and so when I have time to completely lose myself in those, it's really, really a joy.
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Breach
Games
Invasion
Joy
Mario
Odyssey
Strategy
Wonderful
Alien
Time Myself Game
Game
Wild
Course
Time Myself Joy
Lose
Super
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Information's right at our fingertips, but so is what you want to believe. It's the classic thing of someone Googling 'autism vaccines' - they'll find what they're looking for, depending on what they think. You'll find lots of people who are just bolstering what they already think, bolstering their cultural attitude.
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Autism
Fingertips
Vaccines
Depending
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I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people. You can encourage people to eat vegan more, certainly, and I personally eat vegan quite often.
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Choices
People
Thinking
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Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love religious music. I often find myself wanting to be in a religious state of mind even though I don't intellectually believe it. I want to go to that place emotionally. So it doesn't feel like something that I really want to debunk in that way. It's just not where my interests lie at the moment.
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Believe
Lying
Religious
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I don't know the history of hating communism in America. I've always been interested in it, and I've thought about studying it in the past, but I've just looked into other topics first. That certainly sounds like a good topic that we could do on the show. I think it would be really interesting. We would just need to spend a lot of time researching it, getting into it, running down that topic. So I'll take that as a really good pitch for a future episode.
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Running
Hate
Past
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I am a nonbeliever myself. But I think there's so much about religion that is not factual in nature as to why people engage with it and what it means to them. You can debunk why you think there's no physical evidence for God and why the story of Jesus didn't really happen that way and stuff like that all the live-long day, and it's not going to make a difference to what role religion has in people's lives and how they feel about it and how it makes their lives better or worse.
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Jesus
Mean
Thinking
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