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Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, ‘We hear you’re working on a big story,’ sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

I try not to cancel people. But at some point, we got to stand up and say, hey, right is right, wrong is wrong.

Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they’re lame and uncreative – and I think they generally are.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That’s not much of a choice.

If you organise a dinner party, and two guests cancel, it is still a dinner party: you still get to eat dinner.

I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

The debts are unaffordable. If they won’t cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

I don’t like to fill up my schedule. It’s easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

You can’t buy something which does not exist. In a way, let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

It’s dangerous when you start telling people they can’t have an opinion on something. And, you know, you don’t cancel someone, you engage with someone.

A lot of people say there’s no such thing as cancel culture and then you name an example and they’re, like, ‘That person deserved it,’ so then there is cancel culture, but it works in its accountability.

I am not someone who will cancel plans because of personal danger, because I’m really not afraid.

I am a Christian. I have deep faith… They thought they canceled Jesus, but you can’t cancel God.

I’m an ice cream lover, but anytime it’s show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn’t good for vocalists.

What I can say that’s different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn’t cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it’s not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: ‘Look, I haven’t given this election a minute’s thought, and it’s just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.’ Indeed, it’s not just sound and honest – it’s the ethically responsible thing to do.

To my friends on the right, Katie Hill’s national shaming is as much an example of an out of control cancel culture as anything that we’ve seen.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It’s a manic-depressive cycle.

The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims of those who practice identity politics are a political and cultural problem that will require real bravery to fight.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you’re making a mistake, because people do cancel.

I don’t cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don’t just get up and sing the day after one of those.

If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.

I was bullied by Subhash Ghai. He even took me to the court and wanted me to cancel my first show. It was quite stressful. He sent a message to all the producers that nobody should work with me.

If you’re going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the fresh stuff from the ice box, lock the windows and doors, and phone the cops and tell them how long you’ll be gone so they’ll keep an eye out for burglars.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can’t cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

If you think the country is at risk of imploding due to cancel culture, lack of border control, horrific foreign policy decisions going back decades, and bowing down to China – and many of us do – then absolutely a Trump speech is a breath of comforting and soothing fresh air.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

I, and many constituents of TX-13, have had enough of cancel culture and its intent to destroy anyone who does not agree with Democrats’ radical, woke agenda.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit ‘cancel’ on your computer. But, the fact is it’s canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

There’s nothing I hate more than having to cancel shows. In 36 years of performing, I think I’ve only canceled six times.

I’m the type of person who won’t cancel a show even if I don’t feel my best.

You know, Twitter, they tried to cancel me. Facebook has tried to cancel me.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom ‘Roseanne’ after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.

My show ‘The Big House’ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‘The Big House.’ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‘Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.’ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny’s words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

I don’t want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it’s a great place to come from. It’s also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, ‘Do you believe?’ I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, ‘I won’t do this!’ I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, ‘I don’t wear fur; cancel this show!’

Good luck trying to cancel me.

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap ’em. Cancel ’em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

The waves from all the different parts of a sphere would cancel each other out. You need motion that’s nonspherical.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it’s gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

I can’t speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I’ve been depressed – and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, ‘I didn’t order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you’re doing today. It’s time to take a sad shower.’

When various Democrats up to and including Sen. Barbara Boxer objected to previous Electoral College votes in 2004 and 2016, they were not the victim of cancel mobs. In fact, they were praised by the media and Democratic Party leaders.

I love my job – I’m going to keep doing it until I die – but there’s nothing more soul-destroying than having to cancel a show.

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn’t afford to go there.

I get tired when I keep shorting my sleep, but I always make it to the gym. In our house, we live by this: ‘Never quit, never cancel, never be late.’ We’ve found it’s a great way to live.

It’s easier to cancel a show if it’s expensive.

There was a time when I had to cancel around five shows because I lost my voice due to acid reflux. Being with Journey, I get introduced to very good doctors and specialists. I’m managing the condition with proper medication.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

Yes, you can be passionate about school and fashion simultaneously. The two are not mutually exclusive – one doesn’t cancel out the other.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn’t been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

I can’t believe they would cancel ‘Big Brother!’ It’s like an institution!

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It’s a push.