Fred Armisen Quotes
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
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Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals.
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Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
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I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
