Louis C. K. Quotes
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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My life is my message.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
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We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.
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Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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I am very proud of being part of a very fine piece of melodic rock and I hope that many people will like and love it the same way we do. Everything came together very naturally and I had the feeling, that our flow of creativity never seemed to run dry, just like it should be.
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
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'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'
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I live a very low-key life.
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I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
