Fred Armisen Quotes

I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Different
  • Best
  • Golf

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
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  • Myself

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
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• It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Effort

• I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Food
  • Corporations
  • Genetics

• The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Time
  • Flower

• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere

• I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Me
  • Service

• I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.

  

  Fred Armisen
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