Fred Armisen Quotes
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.
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Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
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I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.
