I remember thinking I want to move home to New Hampshire. ... You just want to go home, and you don't want to do anything scary. And then I found a woman who put me on a pill called Klonopin that all it does is block panic attacks. And that really saved my life in that I was able to go to work at' Saturday Night Live' and exist through each day while I was figuring this out.

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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.

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Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

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The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.

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When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.

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What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.

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I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

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If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.

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I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

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I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

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That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

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Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

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The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

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We deserve quality lives with equality.

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In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

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Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

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I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if someone says, "Don't say that," it's all I want to say. And also, something I learned in therapy ... which is darkness can't exist in the light, and then that made me think of something that Mr. Rogers said, which is, "If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

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Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

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You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.

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By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

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