Fred Armisen Quotes
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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How does one get bored of life?
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.
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money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.
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I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
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I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.
