Louie Anderson Quotes

I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

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• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • City
  • Paris
  • Fireworks

• I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Perspective

• I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Working
  • Breathe

• I think sometimes you are born with a song.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Think
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Feeling
  • Year
  • Cards

• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Work
  • Think
  • Problems

• It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Chicago

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• Stilled legendary depth:It was as deep as England. It heldPike too immense to stir, so immense and oldThat past nightfall I dared not cast.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Past
  • Deep

• Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• There's an old African proverb that says 'If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

  

  Al Gore
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

  

  Learned Hand
  • True

• The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Long
  • America
  • Discipline

• I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Women

• Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Family
  • Mother

• I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

  

  Louie Anderson