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You cannot win improv. And life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along. And like improv, you cannot win your life.
Stephen Colbert Carolinian
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Commencement address, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 17, 2011
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- Northwestern University commencement address
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- 2011
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