Fred Armisen Quotes
Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I started out doing musicals.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
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Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!
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My style evolves day by day; I love change.
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They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.
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Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.
