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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Ursula Andress
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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!

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment.

  

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• Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

  

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• There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

  

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• To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Future
  • Lost
  • Broken

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

  

  Louis C. K.