Fred Armisen Quotes
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
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Country music is - can be - a loving industry.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.
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The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
