Louis C. K. Quotes
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I've done it all.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.
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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
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In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
