Neal Brennan Quotes

#1. If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.

Neal Brennan

#2. I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.

Neal Brennan

#3. The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

Neal Brennan

#4. Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome.

Wil Wheaton

#5. An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Kathy Mattea

#6. In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

Nikita Khrushchev

#8. There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but if I wrote for a lot of gay comedians there might be stuff I would say then.

Neal Brennan

#9. If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Neal Brennan

#10. With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.

Neal Brennan

#11. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Anonymous

#12. If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

Neal Brennan

#13. There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

John Wooden

#14. When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

Neal Brennan

#15. I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

Sally Menke

#16. The immediate issue here is whether the Pooh animals realise they constitute a de facto nudist colony.

Frederick C. Crews