Louis C. K. Quotes
People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
