Fred Armisen Quotes
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're 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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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
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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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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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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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For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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The Bible understands mercy as God’s own justice. Mercy is the heart of the biblical message, not by undercutting justice, but by surpassing it. The Old Testament speaks of God as a gracious and merciful God (Exod 34:6; Ps 86:15; etc.) and the New Testament calls God “the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation” (2 Cor 1:3; cf. Eph 2:4).
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
