If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

—Reggie Watts

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About Reggie Watts

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Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts (born March 23, 1972) is an American comedian, musician, beatboxer, and actor. He is known for improvised musical sets created using only his voice, a keyboard, and a looping machine. He was the regular house musician on the spoof IFC talk show Comedy Bang! Bang!...

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I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

—Reggie Watts

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

—George Bernard Shaw

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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

—Yasutani Roshi

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What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion.

—Henry Miller

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