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The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
-Jim Lehrer
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The Shouting And Opinion And Jokes Don't

Jim Lehrer
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
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People were standing up everywhere shouting, "this is me! this is me!" every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. they believed their flashing signs, too. they ought to be standing up and shouting, "this isn't me! this isn't me!" they would if they had any decency. "this isn't me!" then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.
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I learned all those jokes in second grade. second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. he realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. he hadn't mapped out a story for his family. and so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. in the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' mr. okamoto: 'that's an interesting question?' mr. chiba: 'the story with animals.' mr. okamoto: 'yes. the story with animals is the better story.' pi patel: 'thank you. and so it goes with god.
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Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. for example, "my girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "my dad keeps losing his car keys." and then i just think of different ways the story could end. "my girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. i don't understand why she's crying. i'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." then i try it out on stage. i don't do a lot of re-writing. my jokes either work or they don't. the trick is just to write a ton of jokes.
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The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. it is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.
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