Fred Armisen Quotes
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
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I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.
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Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.
