Fred Armisen Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.
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Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
