Bill Maher Quotes
To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.
Maher, Bill. Interview by Nathan Rabin. The A.V. Club, 13 Sept. 2006.
In general, Jefferson thought Blacks at that stage of their development inferior to whites but as this quotation shows he also thought them superior in certain traits. He also stated that their memories were superior to that of whites, but this observation we know now is not, like any of the others, a racial characteristic but is common in all oral cultures where human memory is the only way of preserving history, literature, procedures and much culture.
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He is known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.