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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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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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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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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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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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
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I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
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I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
