#our

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#get #i #i think #important #know

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track. ↗

— Lewis Black

#country #doing #get #i #need

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. ↗

— Lewis Black

#because #course #father #golf #golf course

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. ↗

— Lewis Black

#certainly #comics #else #i #i think

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. ↗

— Lewis Black

#allows #crap #daily #golf #i

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row. ↗

— Lewis Black

#course #days #downstairs #five #get

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter. ↗

— Lewis Black

#father #had #lab #naval #paid

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. ↗

— Lewis Black

#doing #i #never #road #stand-up

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#decide #does #fine #focus #government

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#any #could #course #east #even