Louis C. K. Quotes

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Louis C. K.

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Home
  • High
  • Students

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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  • You
  • Single

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Writing
  • School

• I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Myself

• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • High
  • Quality
  • Present

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• I was a total dork in high school.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• 'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Night
  • Saturday

• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• I just don't feel respected in the political process as a large donor or as a citizen voter. I just feel patronized. Everything I get is like, 'Hey, you couldn't possibly - it's too complex and sophisticated what really goes on,' and, 'Hey, leave it to us, and we will go and represent you and fight the good fight, and just give us money.'

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Good
  • Money
  • Political

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Band

• To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

  

  Louis C. K.
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