Fred Armisen Quotes
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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I love my brother. I miss my brother.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.
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That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
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I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
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My mom lived to be 91, and her advice was, 'Honey, just keep moving.'
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
