Louis C. K. Quotes

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Louis C. K.

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• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
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• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• I have an Oscar on my mantel.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
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  • Safe

• I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
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• I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

  

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• I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!

  

  Victoria Justice
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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I understand Simeone as a coach. His style and his passion for success are clear, and that inspires me too.

  

  Mario Mandzukic
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• It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

  

  Red Barber
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• Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce

  

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• When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Job
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• I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Single

• When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

  

  Louis C. K.