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 really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors in the country. You know, that's very insulting. I'm striving to be one of the best anchors in the country. Handcuff me like that. What you're saying is, 'You're black. You should only expect to rise to the level of the best at being black.'
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I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.
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I don't think anybody has a handle on it. If they continue to move it, it would be a concern as the season gets closer.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
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The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
