Adam Conover Quotes

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

"I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier."

"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.'"

"Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time."

"I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system."

"In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos."

"Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'"

"Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending."

"Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft."

"I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot."

"Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids."

"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."

"Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say."

"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."

"I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through."

"I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it."

"I think that veganism is a totally great choice with incredible benefits, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect other people to be vegan or to expect everybody to be vegan. You can proselytize all you want, but being vegan is a pretty intense choice for a lot of people."

"There is nothing better than getting to just dig in and seriously play a video game for a six-hour flight from New York to L.A."

"I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax."

"I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing."

"Comedy has no rules, per se."

"No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes."

"If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools."

"A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered."

"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!"

"I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'"

"The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry."

"I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt."

"That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest."

"Social media is just more media."