46 Adam Conover Quotes for You to Enjoy

Adam Conover

American Comedian

About Comedy People Think World You

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.' Adam Conover

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All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good. Adam Conover

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I have a lot of family in Marquette. I'm way more familiar with the U.P. than I am with the lower peninsula. I've visited Michigan every couple of years since I was a kid. Adam Conover

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Employ empathy. Adam Conover

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The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader. Adam Conover

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You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy. Adam Conover

I wanted to go to grad school for philosophy, but I couldn't hack it in college, at least I couldn't at that level. Adam Conover

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A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered. Adam Conover

Language Extremely About Lot Millennials

I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal. Adam Conover

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The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them. Adam Conover

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Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending. Adam Conover

Thinking Generational Always Been Condescending

I don't consider myself an educator. Adam Conover

Myself Consider Educator

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.' Adam Conover

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What people say about millennials is the same thing they've said about every generation: Younger people are obsessed with technology, and selfish, and they're lazy, and they live with their parents... Guess what? That's 'cause they're young people! Adam Conover

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We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat. Adam Conover

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You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising. Adam Conover

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