Scott Aukerman Quotes
I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
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In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.
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People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
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I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.
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Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
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I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.
