Fred Armisen Quotes
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.
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MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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On the one hand, the great focal points and the main arteries of traffic speak of the dignity of government and the easy movement of commerce. But we need also the more intimate side of city planning, the by ways with their little shops, the occasional drinking fountain at a street corner, the glimpse of some secluded garden through a half-open gate.
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When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
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A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.
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As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.
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All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
