Louis C. K. Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I am a strong woman. I come from a background as a prosecutor.
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Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
