Daily Show Interview Quotes

#1. People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

William Shakespeare

#2. There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

#3. We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.

Paullina Simons

#4. The idea of synchronizing her outer movements with the natural rhythms of her body inspired her,

Tami Lynn Kent

#5. I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.

Graham Moore

#6. Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

Anne Lamott

#7. Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Octavia E. Butler

#8. This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.

Bill Clinton

#9. All of us, from cradle to grave, are happiest when life is organized as a series of excursions, long or short, from the secure base provided by our attachment figures.

Anonymous

#10. To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you've heard of, authors you should have read.

Kevin Bleyer

#11. The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It's more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop. The church is a Force ... and one does not set a Force in motion lightly.

Stephen King

#12. We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Julia Gillard

#13. On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.

Mickey Sumner

#14. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.

Anthony Burgess