Scott Aukerman Quotes
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I have a very muscular face.
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Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life.
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I'm not really interested in making money.
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I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
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Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
